Spam e-mail contributes to GHG emissions: McAfee

DUBAI McAfee announced new research findings that reveal spam e-mail is not only a nuisance, but damaging to the environment and substantially contributes to green house gas (GHG) emissions. In McAfee's Carbon Footprint of Spam study released yesterday, climate-change researchers ICF and spam experts calculated globally the annual energy used to transmit, process and filter spam totals 33bn kWh.

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