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According to a recent survey, about 65 percent of Net users spend 10 minutes or more a day dealing with spam. About 37 percent of respondents get 100 junk messages a day, and 63 percent get 50 or more.
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  Alice Hill's Technology Watch
 
Saturday, June 26, 2004
New Virus Alert!
A dead blue jay found in Godfrey tested positive for West Nile virus, the Illinois Department of Public Health said Monday.

Okay, okay... There is a new computer virus around also. Strange one too. Apparently, it was sent out initially to infect popular business sites on the web where it sits waiting for folk like you and me (all right, maybe you, there aren't any other folk like me) to log on. When we do, it jumps to our computers and then hangs out. Why? According to news stories floating around, the infected personal computer then becomes a stealth mail center for spammers whenever it's powered up. So far, there's been no real bandwidth denting reported but think about the implications. A couple of million computers sending out a couple of thousand e-mails could put a serious hurt on the Internet --and about 13 percent of our economy is derived from Internet commerce at this point.

And the frightening point? You don't even need to know how to steer an airplane to do it. ---By Bill O'Brien

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