Kids Bombarded With Spam, Porn

Four out of five children receive inappropriate spam e-mail touting get-rich-quick schemes, and almost half receive spam linking to pornographic materials, according to a study released by an Internet security company. A substantial number of the 1,000 children ages 7 to 18 interviewed for the survey by Symantec said they felt "uncomfortable and offended when seeing improper e-mail content." One in five children opened and read spam, the study (http://www.symantec.com/press/2003/n030609a.html) found, and more than half of them checked e-mail without parental oversight.

Among the other findings in the survey:

• 80 percent of the respondents said they are bombarded by sweepstakes messages.
• 62 percent received spam touting dating services.
• 47 percent received e-mails with links to pornographic websites.
• 34 percent have felt uncomfortable receiving spam.

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