...So are our e-mail inboxes any less cluttered? In the week since the law took effect, spam-filtering company Brightmail Inc. flagged 58 percent of incoming e-mail as spam, showing no change from December. And America Online Inc. saw...

...unread. "It's a huge problem to individuals and businesses, and a problem that will increase," Huseman said. Brightmail Inc., a San Francisco firm that sells e-mail filtering services to business, estimates 38 percent of the e-mail...

...Jupiter Research estimates the average e-mail account received 2,200 spam messages last year. The antispam firm Brightmail Inc. estimates nearly 40 percent of all Internet e-mail is unwanted, an increase of 8 percent from 2001. Dozens of...

...Spam traffic has grown from 8 percent of Internet e-mail in 2001 to as much as 40 percent in 2002, according to Brightmail Inc., which provides filtering products for several major Internet service providers. Spam is costly for everybody...

...The spam industry already includes more than 4 million unique e-mail solicitations a year, spam filtering company Brightmail Inc. says. That doesn't include the number of times an advertisement is repeated, which is a bit harder to track...

...in trying to tackle address spoofing. Leading e-mail software vendor Sendmail Inc., spam-filtering company Brightmail Inc. and frequent e-mailer Amazon.com are also at it, each planning to test one or more systems. All these competing...

...viruses. "It's just going to get worse," said Ken Schneider, chief technology officer at spam-filtering company Brightmail Inc. "Traditionally, virus writers were driven more by reputation and trying to impress each other. Now there's...