Mailscanner/Sophos detecting fewer and fewer viruses every day???

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Aug 8 20:30:52 IST 2003


At 20:23 08/08/2003, you wrote:
> > What percentage of mail, on average, is a virus?
>
>That depends a lot on whether you're measuring incoming or outgoing mail, or
>both.   I see something like 2%, for both inbound & outbound mail (but I have
>no idea whether that's considered "normal").

According to MessageLabs, who have a much larger marketing budget than I
do, it's about 1 in 150 messages on average.
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