Commtouch recently announced our Q2 email threat trend report, which indicated, among other things:
Spam levels throughout the second quarter averaged 77%, ranging from a low of 64% to a peak of 94% of all email towards the end of the quarter
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Penn State University researches say they have developed anti-malware technology that can identify and contain worms in milliseconds rather than minutes. The name of this new technology is Proactive Worm Containment, and it focuses on analyzing packet rate, frequency of connections and diversity of connections to other networks, rather than relying on signature or pattern [...]