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Small and medium-sized businesses receive much more spam then large organizations. Also the online set insures of e-mailaddresssen of employees businesses of a robust dose spam. This appeared from investigation of Postini, a business that self specializes in antispam-services.

Businesses with 100 e-mailaddresssen or less goods received until ten turn more spam-mails then commit with 10,000 employees or more, according to Postini.

“The most small businesses have naturally not the IT-means of theirs 's large competitors, but you must you also wonder or the employees of smaller businesses not part its of the problem”, according to Smith, manager with Postini.

“It is very probable that these employees not the same caution practice as employees of large businesses, if it goes the use of internet. By large businesses also often a strict administration of bovenaf opgelegd becomes”, according to Smith.

If this is the case, is not an improved IT-protection thus the solution. It is according to Smith then also at least so important that it personnel carefully goes around with internet and e-mail. It is not for instance better e-mailaddresssen just at everybody to give, and they thus also not on the companyswebsite to set.

From the investigation of Postini appeared that businesses that this source do - as many pr-desk' s, publishers, lawyers offices and brokers - more than ten turns so much spam receive as commit that this do not do.

Measures Hines, CNet