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GENERAL EMAIL STATISTICS
In
2001, it is expected that nearly 12 billion email
messages will be sent every day
Jupiter Communications
The average number of email messages per day
is 32, up 84% per year.
There are now as many as 170M corporate electronic
mailboxes in use, growing 32% per year, with 440M
mailboxes in total.
Spending on commercial email will balloon to
$7.3 billion in 2005 from $164 million in 1999.
Jupiter Communications
SPAM STATISTICS
In 1999, the average consumer received 40 pieces
of spam. By 2005, Jupiter estimates, the total
is likely to soar to 1600.
The Standard
America Online estimates that spam already
accounts for more than 30 percent of email to
its members – as many as 24 million messages a
day.
The Standard
74% of customers believe that their ISPs should
be responsible for fixing spam problems. Gartner
Group
7% of ISP churn was directly attributed to
spam.
Gartner Group
36% of email users would switch ISPs in order
to reduce the flow of spam they received.
Gartner Group
24% of users would be willing to pay an incremental
for spam blocking.
Gartner Group
250,000 spam-related complaints reported every
day at AOL alone.
PC Magazine
Nearly $2 of each customer's monthly bill can
be attributed to electronic junk mail and other
forms of spam.
Information Week
VIRUS STATISTICS
Melissa virus cost the US Economy $1.2 billion – a
bargain compared with the Love Bug, which caused
$8.7 billion worth of damage.
Computer Economics
84 percent of virus infections result in up
to 20 work days lost, 50 hours for recovery, and
costs an organization on average, $10,000. Companies
also report losing up to 70 percent productivity
during a virus attack and losing up to 40 percent
of data after the fact.
ICSA 2000
The economic impact of virus attacks on information
systems around the world amounted to $17.1 billion
in 2000 – and incr e ase from 12 billion in 1999.
Computer Economics
The economic impact of the Love Bug virus alone
was $8.7 billion.
Computer Economics
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