Spam accounts for 70 percent of emails

09/10/2007 by swordfish.

According to Symantec’s latest monthly spam report, spam accounted for 70 percent of all email in September, which is one percent higher than the month before.

However, PDF spam, which saw a surge in August, dipped last month. Image and e-card spam volumes also fell. Image spam went from 10 percent of total spam in August to seven percent in September.

While PDF, image and e-card spam has gone down in volume, text and HTML-based attacks “are still very much in the wild”, the report noted.

According to Symantec, 400,000 JavaScript-embedded spam messages were observed in a one-week period in September.

Source: ZDNET

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