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On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Alison Pechenick wrote:

> Has something happened to increase the virus attacks to uvm e-mail
> addresses? Both my zoo and emba accounts are suddenly, regularly
> receiving scr attachments and klez-infected files (I haven't had this
> problem before).

Spammers significantly increased the number of spams sent around the
holidays:

SPAM-BLOCKER SAYS HOLIDAYS BRING 'TSUNAMI OF SPAM'
      (Source: InfoWorld.com) The San Francisco-based company,
which sells products that help companies identify and block spam,
processed over 16 billion spam messages in the past 30 days, a 21
percent increase over the number of spam messages blocked in the
30 days prior to Thanksgiving.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=741573

Virus infections found at the mail gateways were not up though:

20021001:Total viruses detected: 993
20021002:Total viruses detected: 824
20021003:Total viruses detected: 1070
20021004:Total viruses detected: 819
20021005:Total viruses detected: 586
20021006:Total viruses detected: 612
20021007:Total viruses detected: 1242
20021008:Total viruses detected: 777
20021009:Total viruses detected: 964
20021010:Total viruses detected: 838
20021011:Total viruses detected: 1148
20021012:Total viruses detected: 689
20021013:Total viruses detected: 730
20021014:Total viruses detected: 805
20021015:Total viruses detected: 1122
20021016:Total viruses detected: 869
20021017:Total viruses detected: 759
20021018:Total viruses detected: 755
20021019:Total viruses detected: 476
20021020:Total viruses detected: 536
20021021:Total viruses detected: 692
20021022:Total viruses detected: 1122
20021023:Total viruses detected: 749
20021024:Total viruses detected: 652
20021025:Total viruses detected: 991
20021026:Total viruses detected: 687
20021027:Total viruses detected: 532
20021028:Total viruses detected: 771
20021029:Total viruses detected: 708
20021030:Total viruses detected: 623
20021031:Total viruses detected: 566
20021101:Total viruses detected: 717
20021102:Total viruses detected: 930
20021103:Total viruses detected: 579
20021104:Total viruses detected: 846
20021105:Total viruses detected: 640
20021106:Total viruses detected: 760
20021107:Total viruses detected: 639
20021108:Total viruses detected: 604
20021109:Total viruses detected: 550
20021110:Total viruses detected: 562
20021111:Total viruses detected: 770
20021112:Total viruses detected: 842
20021113:Total viruses detected: 620
20021114:Total viruses detected: 619
20021115:Total viruses detected: 497
20021116:Total viruses detected: 522
20021117:Total viruses detected: 524
20021118:Total viruses detected: 711
20021119:Total viruses detected: 620
20021120:Total viruses detected: 642
20021121:Total viruses detected: 800
20021122:Total viruses detected: 503
20021123:Total viruses detected: 465
20021124:Total viruses detected: 575
20021125:Total viruses detected: 629
20021126:Total viruses detected: 514
20021127:Total viruses detected: 494
20021128:Total viruses detected: 379
20021129:Total viruses detected: 777
20021130:Total viruses detected: 446
20021201:Total viruses detected: 821
20021202:Total viruses detected: 719
20021203:Total viruses detected: 558
20021204:Total viruses detected: 557
20021205:Total viruses detected: 703
20021206:Total viruses detected: 766
20021207:Total viruses detected: 693
20021208:Total viruses detected: 436
20021209:Total viruses detected: 579
20021210:Total viruses detected: 740
20021211:Total viruses detected: 661
20021212:Total viruses detected: 1004
20021213:Total viruses detected: 830
20021214:Total viruses detected: 474
20021215:Total viruses detected: 524
20021216:Total viruses detected: 659
20021217:Total viruses detected: 539
20021218:Total viruses detected: 551
20021219:Total viruses detected: 843
20021220:Total viruses detected: 457
20021221:Total viruses detected: 424
20021222:Total viruses detected: 450
20021223:Total viruses detected: 578
20021224:Total viruses detected: 404
20021225:Total viruses detected: 450
20021226:Total viruses detected: 498
20021227:Total viruses detected: 389
20021228:Total viruses detected: 995
20021229:Total viruses detected: 434


mga.