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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software since 2000

Email Virus Growth Continues

Monday June 30, 2003
MessageLabs Intelligence Data for June 2003 Indicates Email Represents an Increasingly Serious and Complex Risk to the Enterprise
Highlights:
- Nearly 60-70% of spam is now sent through “hijacked” open-proxy computers
- June saw viruses increase by 13.6% over the previous month
- In June, the global ratio of spam in email was 1 in 2.6 or 34.4%
- In the U.S. Marketing, Media, Publishing and Retail industries saw the largest increases in spam in June
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