Netcore Newsletter

November 2006

News

+ IT greats: Top 10 greatest IT people

+ How to keep your VoIP net safe

+ Spoofing bug found in IE 7

+ User tricks, security 'treats'

+ Spam fighters losing ground

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Emergic CleanMail Security Report

Spam Statistics
92.92% of mails for corporate India were spams for the month of October. Overall 80% of mails were blocked in RBL.

Latest Virus
W32.Tigape.A@mm

W32.Tigape.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that copies itself to local folders and mapped network folders, and appends itself to .rar files.It also drops and executes Trojan.Galapoper.A,Which inturn contacts remote Web Site and downloads other risk onto the compromised computer.

Top 5 virus in India

a) W32/Bagle.DW@mm - 63.66

b) W32/Warezov.FZ - 5.55

c) W32/Downloader.AHQM - 4.80

d) W32/Warezov.DN - 4.05

e) W32/Warezov.DM - 3.55

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.

Cast your vote

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They should be fined
They should be sent to prison
They should write "I will not create viruses" 1000 times
None. It's harmless fun
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