Virus infections drop, spam on the up

The number of viruses hitting Irish inboxes has fallen but spam continues to rise, according to figures from IE Internet.

The Irish e-mail monitoring firm found that the rate of virus infection in the mails that it filtered for its customers fell to 11.65 percent in September. This reverses the brief rise seen in August 2006, when the rate of infection rose to 15.15 percent.

The Mytob virus is still heading the pack, responsible for 40.52 percent of infected mail, while Zafi.B is in second place, and Netsky (NKYH.PK - news) .P in third position. However, Ken O'Driscoll, chief technology officer of IE Internet, pointed out that these viruses have been around for some time.
This indicates that the blame for many of the virus comes from older, inadequately protected machines that may have no antivirus software or updated patches, and users may be unaware of their vulnerability. "The viruses we stop are coming from home installations," said O'Driscoll, speaking with EN...

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