The number of spammails is still growing steadily, and hackers are today is cold businessmen rather playful boys. It shows the six-monthly report from security company Symantec.

Symantec, which is the world's largest provider of security software, has published its biannual report on the Internet situation. The report, which apply to the second half of 2006, showing among other things, that the number of spammails has risen once again, so that 59 percent of all the world's e-mail is now spam. This is an increase of five percent compared to the last half-yearly report. Two-thirds of all the annoying advertising mails are in English and when you receive a spam, is the odds of that are from the United States also very high.

Otherwise, it is not surprising conclusion from Symantec that hacking is now primarily a matter of cold calculation rather than more or less innocent boys pranks, as in the early www years. Also joining the Internet-security company on an increase in data theft and data leaks, and that in the second half of 2006 was sent more targeted code of the malicious kind than before. And so it is fortunate that Symantec together with the safety launches its latest security product, Norton 360