Pandalabs: 91% Of Email Received In Q1 Was Spam

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PandaLabs: 91% Of Email Received In Q1 Was Spam

Between January and March 2009, 302,000 computers were infected with malware to redistribute spam

Apr 30, 2009 | 01:51 PM

GLENDALE, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- "PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today announced that less than seven percent of emails that reached companies in the first quarter of 2009 were legitimate correspondence. Some 91 percent of messages were spam, while 1.6 percent, or more than 1.1 million messages, were infected with some type of malware. This data is based on the analysis by TrustLayer Mail, the clean mail managed service from Panda Security, which examined 69 million email messages sent in the first quarter of 2009.

The amount of spam detected between January and March 2009 has increased slightly with respect to the same period in 2008, when spam accounted for 90 percent of the email received by companies. With respect to the different types of spam, the amount of junk mail related to false job offers rose significantly, probably due to the global recession and associated unemployment rates. "

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