March may see the biggest spam attacks

The month of March will see the maximum number of spam attacks compared to other months in the first two quarters, with an average increase of around 10 to15 per cent in spam volumes as compared with February volumes, indicates a new spam report from antivirus software firm McAfee.

A spam traffic increase of 20 per cent in March would cost an extra $3.10 (around Rs 160) per user while the user read and deleted spam instead of doing work. For a 1,000-user organisation, suggests the report, it would cost the company an extra $3,100 (around Rs 1.5 lakh) for the month of March alone.