October ….
This month, spam has increased while phishing and viruses have gone down slightly.
Below, we have the daily breakdown for ham, spam, viruses and phishing.
World of Spam
The volume per geographical location for spam, viruses and phishing emails for October can be seen below.
Spain has edged itself into the top three this month. The UK was barely hanging into top ten last month, but this month has increased by nearly 2%.
Viruses:
This family of viruses, Worm.Stration, has certainly made an appearance in this months top ten!! This virus has taken up 4 positions, this worm spreads by e-mail as an attachment or as a hyperlink in ICQ message. This family of virus is also known as Warezov by other other AV venders.
| Position | Virus | Percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2 |
|
44.92% | |
| 2 |  |
Worm.SomeFool.P |
|
9.47% | |
| 3 | |
Worm.Stration.YY |
|
9.43% | |
| 4 |  |
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 |
|
8.14% | |
| 5 | |
Worm.Stration.JF |
|
7.59% | |
| 6 | |
Worm.Stration.KR |
|
5.94% | |
| 7 | |
Wormery.Mail.Update_KB_x86_zip1 |
|
4.32% | |
| 8 | |
Worm.Mytob.CL |
|
3.96% | |
| 9 | |
Worm.Mydoom.M |
|
3.39% | |
| 10 | |
Worm.Stration.JC |
|
2.84% | |
Phishing:
Phishing sites purporting to be coming from Barclays have taken over the game, they are well ahead of all other sites this month.
