February 2, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Email security and management provider Postini (postini.com) announced on Tuesday that spam mail accounted for 88 percent of all emails, while only 12 percent was legitimate, according to data gathered from the 14.7 billion messages processed by the company in January.
According to estimates made by mi2g, the Netsky family of viruses, which only affects computers running Windows, has now reached the eighth position in mi2g’s ranking of the most damaging viruses ever. The total amount of damage wrought by the Netsky family is estimated by the firm to be between $6.7 and $8.2 billion.
