SoftScan publishes their June 2007 spam and virus statistics.

SoftScan has found that spam levels are back up in the nineties, with 90.1 per cent of email scanned during June classified as spam.

Spam levels fluctuated throughout the month and some days saw levels drop to 86 per cent, but the company concludes that the most likely reason is that there were just less customers in the spam shop on these days.

June also saw SoftScan record its highest ever percentage of email classified as spam when it stopped 96.6 per cent of all email scanned, correctly identifying it as junk mail. Narrowly beating February's record of 96.2 per cent the high level occurred during a weekend when there is less legitimate business email. Spam levels on week days during June peaked at 91.4 per cent.

With no major outbreaks recently and a drop in phishing activity, the overall percentage of emails stopped as viruses fell in June to just 0.6 per cent.

The top five virus families in June 07 were:

1. phishing - 96.6 per cent
   
2. netsky - 0.91 per cent
   
3. stration - 0.45 per cent
   
4. bagle - 0.45 per cent
   
5. mytob - 0.44 per cent

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