CNET: Less junk in your in-box?

It won't be ballyhooed by the anti-spam technology companies quite like the doom-by-spam press releases we've seen in the past few years, but MessageLabs found that some forms of the scourge have actually decreased. Business emails now have less than a third the frequency of non-work-related attachments, like pornography or - shudder - greeting cards. Spam viruses also fell, contributing to a general drop in spam that caused the non-spam proportion of emails to jump by almost 300 percent.