Virus-infected computers are woven into “botnets” used to attack more machines and to send specious sales pitches to email addresses in low-cost quests to bilk readers out of cash.

“Every year we see threats evolve as criminals discover new ways to exploit people, networks and the Internet,” said Cisco chief security researcher Patrick Peterson.

Junk email referred to as spam accounts for nearly 200 billion messages daily, approximately 90 percent of email worldwide, according to a Cisco Annual Security Report.

I guess we all know there’s a lot of spam about there, but when you actually see the number it’s a bit overwhelming. 200,000,000 messages daily are spam!

As has been stated in the past, very few people actually buy products from email spams, but a percentage of 200 million is still quite a few conversions. Until EVERYONE stops being an idiot and buying from spam emails, we can expect more of the same.