Spam statistics for corporate India stays constant at 80%. Last week saw a rise in DoS and DHA attacks from spammers using Zombies. Overall 78% of mails were blocked due to its origin from an Open Relay or a Zombie machine. These statistics and amount of virus traffic is expected to increase the coming week due to an outbreak of a new variant of Sober. This virus has a very high penetration rate and sends its replica in German or English language

Virus of the Week

W32.Sober.O@mm

W32.Sober.O@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself as an email attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer. It uses its own SMTP engine to spread. The email may be in either English or German. Its considered to be extremely dangerous and has high distribution capabilities.

Top 5 virus in India

a) W32/Netsky.P@mm - 43.27 %

b) W32/Netsky.Q@mm - 9.69 %

c) W32/Netsky.AK@mm - 8.74 %

d) W32/FunLove.4099 - 4.97 %

e) W32/Mytob.AT@mm - 4.93 %

ECM : Tip of The Month

Double-check those check boxes when you sign up for Web stuff or register software. The boxes are often pre-checked, giving the company consent to spam you or allowing it to share your e-mail address with third parties. Look closely because sometimes the check boxes are not in plain view; you may have to scroll up or down to make sure you don't get more than what you bargained for.

The statistics in this report are estimated on the basis of the mail traffic arriving on the Netcore's Emergic CleanMail servers with an average of 1 million mails hitting the servers daily. The statistics represent the mail traffic for Corporate Indian Clients and doesn't account for traffic to free email addresses.