Virus, spam and lots of wasted time

Today, there was lot of email sent to people from my address list. Most of those emails contained some type of virus in it.
I just hope this is not the end of email. Spam is just too bad for the productivity. Since this is a problem, I think there are big bucks to be made here. I will be looking for some companies and standards that are doing work in this area. Maybe one of them would hit big ?? :)