
"Since June this year we have seen an increase of 95 per cent in the amount of spam we stop each month," Diego d'Ambra, CTO of SoftScan, said in a statement. "For organisations that are relying on spam filters alone, these past few months must have been a nightmare for network administrators."
The research also found that a new virus attack was detected every day in September, even though overall virus levels remained low at just 0.14 per cent of emails.