Dramatic Drop in Virus Infected Email and Rise in Spam and Scams

"FrontBridge Technologies Inc., a leading provider of secure managed messaging services, reported that in June 90 per cent of traffic on its network was blocked as spam before these messages could consume valuable customer server space, network bandwidth and employee time. Despite the continued prevalence of spam, FrontBridge did report dramatic decreases in the amount of virus-laden email bounced from its network. 36 million messages were rejected or quarantined for carrying viruses, as compared to the 319 million messages in May. The decrease in viruses can be attributed to no coordinated attack last month such as that brought on by the Sober.S worm." Source: net-security.org