90% mail received by businesses in August was spam

10 September, 2007

According to data compiled by TrustLayer Mail, the managed security service from Panda Security, almost as much as 87.49 percent of email that reached businesses in August was spam.

This data concurs with observations from previous months, where spam percentages have also been around 90 percent.

“Junk mail has become a damaging plague for companies who suffer very serious effects of lost productivity, and an unnecessary drain on networked resources”, confirms Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs.

In terms of spam messages infected by malicious code, once again the Netsky.P worm was the most frequently detected culprit. Similarly, there was a significant number of emails containing downloader Trojans, that is, those designed to download malware onto computers.

“The majority of infected messages detected by our solution contained email worms. This type of malicious code is extremely damaging to companies as it saturates corporate servers”, says Corrons.

The Panda Security service blocks threats arriving via email before they reach companies’ mailboxes and ensures that e-mail is virus-free.

Panda Security’s TrustLayer Mail includes technology that combines signature-based protection with a system for consulting a global network of continuously updated security servers. The application of this system helps detect 98.5 percent of all spam and returns a false positive ratio of just 1 in every 27,905 messages processed. This data has been compiled from the networks protected by TrustLayer Mail during the solution’s trial phase.

The TrustLayer system architecture offers has been designed to offer maximum availability (99.99%) to ensure an uninterrupted message delivery service. It is supported by a team of experts, day and night, monitoring the 24x7 mail service and resolving any incidents.

The service is provided from one of the Managed Data Centers of Spain’s largest telecoms Telefonica.

More information on TrustLayer Mail is available at: http://www.pandasecurity.com/trustlayer/default.asp