Email spam levels drop below 50 percent for the first time in 12 years

49.7 percent of anything may sound like a lot, but it's a historical low for spam email levels - it's the lowest share recorded by Symantec since September 2003, so progress is being made.Back then, Tony Blair was the UK PM and Apple was about to release Mac OS X Panther. The world was still waiting for the final Matrix film and bopping along to the Black Eyed Peas' Where Is The Love?The figure is dropping slowly: it was 52.1 percent in April and 51.5 percent in May. Phishing rates and email-bas