Burlington, Mass. - Five years after Bill Gates predicted spam would be eradicated, it remains a major problem for computer users as spammers have focused increased attacks on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter during the last quarter, according to a report from IT security firm Sophos.

There has been a firestorm of discussion lately after Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and author of the long tail recently "outed" all the PR professionals that had been contacting him with anonymous spam style "Dear Editor" communications.  On a day where he had more than 300 of these, he finally decided he had enough and fired off a post banning those PR folks from contacting him and adding him to his blocked sender list.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s online social network MySpace announced on Monday that it has filed suit against a number of spammers for posting millions of spam "bulletins" to MySpace users' accounts.

According to a fresh study done by the Swedish Internet provider Spray, the amount of junk mail being sent to its subscribers has increased from 80% to 90% during 2006. I’m sure that this reflects the situation in most of Europe and the U.S. as well (AOL reported around 80% junk mail in the U.S. by the end of 2005).