…And monumental hangovers, and having no money, and bloody Christmas shopping, but that's another story. Just about every vendor in the security space is making their bold predictions for the threat landscape of 2007 at the moment. And to be honest, none of it is exactly revolutionary stuff – "more of the same" is the general message I've got from talking to McAfee, MessageLabs, Trend Micro, Postini and others in the last few days. Spam is likely to move onto your CEOs radar once again as increasing bot numbers cause more problems, IE7 adware problems will abound, instant messaging could become an attractive target as more interoperability between proprietary systems occurs. You know the drill.

At a meeting with Trend's three CTOs – they just have to do everything bigger and better don't they – the thorny subject of ISPs responsibility for cutting spam again came up. Dave Rand, Trend's CTO for content security, seemed to think that most US ISPs are doing more to solve the problem than their European counterparts, having taken AOL's lead and put in place content filtering and Port 25 blocking. Others disagreed though and it's probably fair enough to say they could all do with doing a bit more – it certainly is judging by my Yahoo inbox, which is now getting around 40 messages a day.