April's spam and virus statistics from softscan.SoftScan revealed that there has been little change once again in the virus and spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). statistics for April. By comparison, this time last year there had already been a number of big virus outbreaks, leading SoftScan to conclude that virus writers seem to be unnaturally quiet and that spam levels appear to have stabilised Adj. 1. stabilised - made stable or firm stabilized stable - resistant to change of position or condition; "a stable ladder"; "a stable peace"; "a stable relationship"; "stable prices" in recent months. "When you look at the data," comments Bo Engelbrechtsen, corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. manger manger cattle trough which served as crib for Christ. [N.T.: Luke 2:7] See : Nativity of SoftScan, "there has been little change over the last eighteen months in the percentage of spam. The only real change has been in the goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. the spam emails offer. Although some organisations have performed a great deal of research into this, it does not increase spurn detection rates and is of little consequence to email users, all they want to see is an end to spam in their inbox." Spam accounted for 85.18% of total email traffic scanned by SoftScan during April. At the end of January this year spare levels were slightly higher at 87.09%, but the underlying trend is approximately 85%. With no major outbreaks this year, virus levels have remained static too, although for how long remains to be seen. Viruses accounted for 0.55% of all email traffic in April. The top five virus families for April were: 1 phishing Pronounced "fishing," it is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as "brand spoofing," an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. 42.60% 2 netsky 28.49% 3 mytob 13.24% 4 html.iframe 5.00% 5 nyrem 4.57% With no major outbreaks, the top five virus families and their proportional percentages have changed little so far this year. Until now Netsky has remained in the number one spot, demonstrating as SoftScan pointed out in February that users need to check and clean their machines, since the high percentage rate is not down to new infections. www.softscan.com |
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