I can believe email malware is going down...maybe...(heck, macro and
boot viruses ruled the world each for a few years before the next big
thing came along)...but I would bet money that Internet scanning worms
and bots have more than made up for the drop in email-only worms.
Roger
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Alexander [mailto:mike.alexander@mail.moray.gov.uk]
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 4:18 AM
To: focus-virus@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: email-borne viruses hit zero
I was slightly sceptical about the downward trend, but looking at our
own stats plus those on the Messagelabs website it would appear that
there is a slight downward trend over the course of 2004.
http://www.messagelabs.com/emailthreats/default.asp
The Virus Intercepts graph shows this trend over 2004, with around 1 in
10 in March dropping to below 1 in 50 at the end of December. December
also shows a marked drop over the rest of the year: around 1 in 33 in
November dropping to around 1 in 50 in December.
However: taking the previous year (2003) into account the general trend
appears to be that virus-borne emails are on the increase, shown by the
blue trend line that has been drawn on the graph:
http://www.messagelabs.com/img/eng/emailthreats/virus_large.jpg
The net result is that the trend line is flattening out, rather than
continuing to rise at any significant rate. The projection appears to
be for around 1 in 20 in 2005.
So I think that people like Stu should enjoy the brief respite while
they can!
Regards,
Mike
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