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Spam Data
Email Processed (last 2 days)
| Yesterday 11/18 | Today 11/19 (so far) | |
|---|---|---|
| Blocked: Spam | 1,308,418,363 88.58% | 629,606,718 89.44% |
| Blocked: Virus | 372,954 0.03% | 130,685 0.02% |
| Quarantined | 9,825,741 0.67% | 5,041,521 0.72% |
| Allowed: Tagged | 10,755,603 0.73% | 4,951,566 0.70% |
| Allowed | 147,746,966 10.00% | 64,223,706 9.12% |
| Total Received | 1,477,119,627 100.00% | 703,954,196 100.00% |
| Last Updated 11/19/08 06:00:19 GMT | ||
Web Data
| Domain Visits | Domain Visits |
|---|---|
| 1. myspacecdn.com 234,426 | 6. 2o7.net 76,111 |
| 2. facebook.com 178,462 | 7. google.com 70,362 |
| 3. yahoo.com 150,234 | 8. live.com 57,219 |
| 4. msn.com 129,386 | 9. microsoft.com 48,022 |
| 5. photobucket.com 84,180 | 10. go.com 35,698 |
| Last Updated 11/19/08 06:00:02 GMT | |
Virus Data
| Top Blocked Virus Threats Count |
|---|
| 3698 |
| 1017 |
| 477 |
| 325 |
| 316 |
| 292 |
| 258 |
| 245 |
| 221 |
| 167 |
| Last Updated 11/19/08 06:00:19 GMT |
| Latest Real-Time Virus Threats |
|---|
| Worm.SomeFool.P |
| Worm.Mytob.A |
| W32.Sality.Q-1 |
| Worm.SomeFool.D |
| Worm.Lovgate.X |
| Worm.Mytob.Crypt.Gen |
| Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 |
| Worm.Bagle.BL |
| Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2 |
| BN.ZeroHour-42797870 (Heur.W32) |
| Last Updated 11/19/08 06:00:14 GMT |
Threat News
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Spammers take advantage of Picasa and Flash
Free online services may be great for the general public, but it turns out some of them also offer a great service for spammers to take advantage of.
2008-9-08 – Geek.com -
Shadowserver Foundation finds number of compromised PCs jumps to more than 400,000
The number of computers infected by botnets quadrupled from 100,000 PCs to more than 400,000 machines over t he past three months.
2008-9-08 – GCN -
Facebook botnet risk
revealed
Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into elements of a botnet that in a demonstration launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server.
2008-09-06 – CNET News -
DNS exploit code is in the wild
The urgency to patch clients and servers rises to a fever pitch as code to attack the Internet is released. Two Black Hat presenters had conflicted over the timing of the code release.
2008-7-24 – CNET News