Re: Decrease in Threats?

Andrew Simmons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aubs wrote:

 > On 1/25/06, Rohny Jotton <[email protected]> wrote:

 >> I've been trying to find any trending of threats seen worldwide, and
 >> the only one I have found is at f-secure. The chart seems to support
 >> what I'm seeing but I'm curious if others are seeing a decrease also.
 >> [...]
 >> Also if anyone knows of other sites that show historic trends, I'd
 >> appreciate being given the link. I see most antivirus sites will only
 >> give percentage breakdowns and not quantities seen.


>  think Message Labs also have this facility messagelabs.com
> 


Yes, we do - see the chart here:

http://www.messagelabs.com/publishedcontent/publish/threat_watch_dotcom_en/threat_statistics/virus_intercepts/DA_115628.chp.html


These stats are based on approximately 100m mails/day passing through
our infrastructure at present, although this figure was somewhat lower
back in 2003.


 > Regards,
 >
 > Aubs
 >


cheers

\a

-- 
Andrew Simmons
MessageLabs Security Team
MessageLabs: Be certain.


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