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Spam slightly lower in February, but botnets still lurking
Closed Published March 3rd, 2009 in Browser Security, Malware, Spam, email
Spam is an annoying but constant reality for e-mail users, and February did little to change that fact. According to the latest malware report from MessageLabs Intelligence, the beginning of the month saw a spike in spam—it reached as much as 79.5 percent of e-mail traffic—before settling down to an average of 73.3 percent for the month as a whole.
The spike was due to a heavy dose of Valentine’s Day-related spam messages, most of which linked to sites selling male "enhancement" products. One particular botnet, Cutwail, was responsible for 6.5 percent of all spam, the majority of which promised to "make this Valentine’s Day the most memorable ever." Spam slightly lower in February, but botnets still lurking – Ars Technica
