The vast majority of IT directors are reporting significant increases in email spam, and 20% say there has been an increase of more than 100% over the last year. That’s among key findings of a survey of 460 IT directors, managers and administrators by network management, secure file transfer and messaging solutions firm Ipswitch.

IT managers also say there’s been an average of 30 infections of viruses, worms or Trojans over the past 12 months, as well as 22 incidents of spyware or key logger installations. “The amount of spam arriving in corporate inboxes shows no sign of waning, and IT managers must be prepared to take decisive steps to deal with this problem,” says Tripp Allen, Ipswitch president. “The importance of having an efficient antispam filter that is flexible, extensible and capable of providing automatic updates 24×7, is now more important than ever since infections can be costly to deal with.” Spam and malware payloads show significant increase - Manufacturing Computer Solutions news article

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