E-mails become a plague and the Internet collapses in 2006

There is spyware, and adware together with Popups. Those are following us through the usage of the Internet.

Than there is spam. Spam now diversifies into SPIM - Spam over the Instant Messaging and SPIT - Spam over VoiP.

Argh - now we have a new study that repeats old findings. Spam makes e-mailing worse. "A British conference heard last week that 60 per cent of all e-mails were spam, up from 10 per cent in 2001."

Nothing new in this - only may be but not mentioned, that spammers become more intelligent and using keywords in the e-mail to cheat their way through a firewall. That is when you see those funny words in the end of a spam letter - in case you opened one.

In addition, a Finnish researcher says that due to spam and viruses, he predicts that the Internet will collapse in 2006. He comes to the conclusion by basing his findings on current trends. However, Techdirt correctly points out that a lot of the staff that he is proposing to save the Internet" is actually already happening. That happens when you look at historic data and extrapolate trends without considering other influencing factors.