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I usually only scan the report briefly,
but today noted a significant update that I thought I would compare to months past.
Looking over the report, I've noticed that since last December,
the number of (known) virii and trojan available to attack e-mail went from around 2,000 to:
Date/Time of last virus update
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Tue 2003-04-22 00:03:29
Virus engine statistics
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Engine version: 4.0.1.14 (newest)
Engine date: 2002/06/25 (newest)
Definition count: 64120
Definition date: 2003/03/18
That's correct, each and every e-mail my system processes is now scanned
for 64,000+ virii and trojans!
Not to mention the hundreds of anti-spamming filters...
Updates that use to come once a month, now come twice a day.
My system processes an average of 7,000 e-mail weekly,
yet only about 150 are accepted.
That makes over 99% of processed mail junk or hazardous.
And I run a very small, very secure SMTP server.
I can only imagine what the larger ones must go through.
Especially given the lack of security most have.
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