Spam, phishing stats

February 2005

According to statistics released by MessageLabs, a managed e-mail security services provider that scans e-mail for its clients, 73.2 percent of the messages it scanned in 2004 were spam. Of the 147 billion e-mails it scanned, it found that 1 in 16 contained a virus (MyDoom ranked first). And more than 18 million phishing e-mails were intercepted, from a low of 337,050 in January to 4,522,495 in November, jumping nearly tenfold between June and July. @ MessageLabs Intelligence Annual E-mail Security Report 2004 is available through SM Online. .

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