A Visual History Of Spam And Viruses

from the have-some-free-time-and-some-spam? dept

A Microsoft employee with some extra time and plenty of spam on his hands has decided to graph out all the spam and viruses he’s received since 1997. He’s only graphing out the spam that makes it through the corporate spam filter, but it still shows just how much spam has grown over the years. The graph shows spam against the size of the messages, but actually suggests that the Microsoft spam filter has gotten better recently.


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