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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on April 07, 2006, 14:48
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The latest monthly statistics from Postini note how over 23Bn messages were processed during March, of which unwanted email totalled nearly 19.6Bn. This equates to a 4% increase on February, bringing the total amount of SPAM to 84% (16% = legitimate).
The company also filtered 6.5 million IM conversations in March, an increase of more than 200% over February?s 2.2 million, underscoring the growth of corporate IM.
While unwanted email was on the rise, viruses declined by 19% of all email in March, with Postini stopping a total of 32.5 million viruses. The top five viruses for March were:
Virus Name - Quantity Blocked
1. Mytob - 16,742,504
2. Netsky - 5,289,158
3. Mimi - 2,669,122
4. Lovgate - 1,633,323
5. Bagle - 1,179,221
Postini protected its customers from more than 15 billion directory harvest attacks (DHAs), malicious attacks and email to invalid recipients, a seven percent increase over February?s 14 billion.
LINK (http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?id=EEuuFkuuZFezhqYjdO)