One of the things Sober does is it turns your computer into a spam zombie.
When you have an email server like Microsoft Exchange, which is the most common for small businesses, you end up buying more hardware than you need in order to process the spam you've let in.
This is not a spam reduction measure. It is a way for a legitimate merchant to avoid getting a false/positive in an AOL spam filter.
If you are in publishing, you get more spam sent to you than anybody else.
Not surprisingly, 85 per cent said spam and virus protection had been their number one concern in 2005.
The increase in spam was due to an increase in tax preparation offers and other financial service offerings that are more prevalent as we approach April 15.