MessageLabs: 90 Pct of Email is Spam, 80 Pct of Spam from Botnets
Posted in Digital Trend.com by on June, 30 at 6:00 am
MessageLabs has released its June 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report (PDF) covering spam, both via instant messaging and email. Overall, MessageLabs finds that some 90.4 percent of all email traversing the Internet is spam, a figure that’s essentially right in line with May 2009…but MessageLabs attributes that to a several-hour shutdown of a leading bot network in early June; otherwise, June’s spam levels would likely have been higher than spam in May.
MessageLabs found that spam from botnets accounted for 83.2 perce
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