January 2006 Virus and Spam Statistics

Ant writes "Commtouch reports the January 2006's virus and spam statistics. Its summary said there were four massive virus attacks (including a multi-wave attack of 7 variants) and the most aggressive attacks penetrated before the average antivirus (AV) solution could even release a signature. The data is based on information continuously gathered by the Commtouch Detection Center, which analyzed more than 2 billion messages from over 130 countries during the month of January 2006..."

Comments

Re:Problematic Signature Release Issue

[arivanov]

There was a brilliant signature for SpamAssassin to detect dodgy MSFT executables in 2.6x. The mainstream 3.x has removed it but it is still available out there in the bogus virus warning list towards the end of it (http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/bogus-virus-warnings. cf). Beware the owner of the page allows only one GET per IP address per day. You have one chance to download the ruleset. Combined with greylisting on the external gateway this has caught every single virus outbreak out there for the last 3 months. Not a single virus ladden email has gotten past the combination of this.