Chinese Internet users received two or three junk e-mails on average each day from June to October, with the fact that almost three in every five e-mails sent in China was junk mail.

 

Figures from the Internet Society of China (ISC) show China generates about 50 billion junk e-mails annually, accounting for 59.49 percent of the total e-mail volume, or 2.7 junk e-mails per user.

 

Zeng Mingfa, head of the ISC's anti-junk mail center, said the figure was dropping. From February to August, at least 150,000 junk e-mail reports were sent to the center.

 

Spot checks by the ISC show that 47.86 percent of Internet users employed anti-junk e-mail software supplied by e-mail service providers.

 

Search engines and domestic senders are the main sources of junk e-mails, according to the ISC.

 

Junk e-mails occupied Internet resources and spread viruses, and Chinese Internet users spend an average of 12.67 minutes per week dealing with them, the ISC said.

 

(Xinhua News Agency December 2, 2006)