Virus and spam levels back to normal again
December 7, 2009
As we earlier reported virus levels have been rather higher than normal lately, but this now seem to have changed. We now see that virus level is back below 1 % which is more normal. Furthermore the dominating viruses aren’t actually viruses but phishing attempts.
Virus and phising share last 6 months - 2009
Interesting to see is that the spam rate seems to have followed the virus rate. Spam rate has been around 85 % but is now back to around 80 % again. Since many of the viruses are used to create botnets sending spam this is not that suprising.
Spam rate last 6 months 2009
More statistics at our main page and the Security Centre.
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