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United States of Spamerica Business & Finance 18 May 2007 Over 60% of e-mails sent to Irish inboxes during April were unsolicited, according to new figures. The web hosting and monitoring firm IE Internet, which intercepts thousands of e-mails everyday, said that 61.94% of e-mails during the month contained spam, down by more than 2% on the preceeding month. Read More... Upsurge in Spam Emails The Irish Times 04 May 2007 Web hosting and email filtering company IE Internet claims that over 60 per cent of emails delivered to Irish internet users last month were unsolicited spam. Read More... Most Spam from US and Korea Herald AM 04 May 2007 The US and Korea are the main source of Ireland's internet spam, according to new research. Read More... Spam takes up bulk of in-boxes Metro 04 May 2007 More than 60 per cent of e-mails sent to Irish computer is spam, a study has revealed. Technology firm IE Internet said the rate of virus-infected e-mails was at six per cent last month. Read More... US and Korea to blame for Ireland's spam breakingnews.ie 03 May 2007 The US and Korea are the main source of Ireland's internet spam according to new research. Over 60% of the emails sent to Irish addresses are spam, with virus infected emails averaging about 6%. Research by IE internet has shown the US was the source of 24% of the spam, while almost 23% came from Korea in April. Read More... You've Been Spammed The Irish Times 13 April 2007 by Karlin Lillington As economic activity accelerates the problem of junk e-mail is developing into a serious problem for business, writes Karlin Lillington Read More... Spam rates in Ireland hit record high breakingnews.ie 02 April 2007 The rate of spam emails targeted at Irish inboxes in March was the highest ever recorded according to the latest statistics from technology company IE Internet. The steady increase of spam over the past years have seen spam rates in Ireland increase from 21% in March 2004 to more than 64% last month. Read More... March of the Spam siliconrepublic.com 02 April 2007 by Niall Byrne Last month saw the highest ever amount of spam emails hit Irish inboxes, according to statistics from technology company IE Internet, with 64pc of emails being classed as spam in March. Read More... Spam, damn spam, and statistics enn.ie 02 April 2007 by Maxim Kelly Individuals unknown have powered up a dormant zombie army in North America, and its terrible reign of spam has commenced afresh. That's the fear amongst e-mail experts at monitoring firm IE Internet whose latest figures for March show the rate of unsolicited mail clogging Ireland's inboxes has broken all known records. Read More...
60pc of business email is now spam siliconrepublic.com 02 March 2007 Spam comprised the majority of emails sent to Irish inboxes last month, the latest figures from IE Internet claim. It said that over 60pc of emails sent to Irish businesses were spam. The US remains the largest source of spam, followed closely by the Russian Federation. Poland made its first appearance in the monthly statistics from IE Internet as a major source of spam targeted at Irish businesses. Read More... Spam-crossed lovers hit hard in February enn.ie 01 March 2007 by Charlie Taylor Romantics weren't only wooed with flowers on St Valentine's Day; spammers also tried to seduce them with unsolicited e-mail, new statistics reveal. The amount of spam e-mail sent in February was one of the highest ever according to IE Internet, with 62.3 percent of all e-mails sent to Irish inboxes containing unsolicited messages. Read More... Act of God hampers spam theregister.co.uk 05 February 2007 By Maxim Kelly Mother Nature may be hitting back at the scourge of spam-filled inboxes, according to IE Internet. The web hosting and monitoring firm believes the recent earthquake that hit Taiwan in late December may be responsible for a reduction in spam and virus rates for January, although a monstrous 53.12 per cent of emails were spam - above last year's average of 52 per cent.
Read More... Firms fail to kick junk siliconrepublic.com 02 February 2007 By Gordon Smith
Irish spam levels fell from their Christmas high but junk email remains a significant problem, as it accounted for 53.12pc of all messages last month.
Read More... Spam flood set to continue into ’07 siliconrepublic.com 04 January 2007 By Gordon Smith
The volume of spam email coming into Ireland in 2006 rose by more than 30pc over the previous year and it looks likely to grow further in 2007, according to a new report. IE Internet, which has been analysing spam and virus levels in Ireland for more than three years, has released its Annual Security Review.
Read More... Spamty Claus is coming to Town enn.ie 20 December 2006 By Ciara O'Brien Although statistics for spam e-mail landing in Irish inboxes won't be released until January, experts are predicting we could see a surge in the proportion of junk e-mail that businesses need to filter out of their inboxes. Ken O'Driscoll of monitoring firm IE Internet says holiday seasons are prime time for spammers who take advantage of the fact that most network administrators have a break over Christmas.
Read More... Spam: now made in China theregister.co.uk 04 December 2006 By Maxim Kelly The politics of unwanted email is changing with China set to overtake the US any day now as the originator of most Irish inbox clutter. Figures for November from Irish email monitoring firm IE Internet show that although the US is still the world leader with 27 per cent of dodgy emails originating there, this is a huge drop on October's figure of 48 per cent.The People's Republic of China is now pumping out nearly 26 per cent of all spam filtered by IE Internet - an increase on the previous month's figure of just under 10 per cent.
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