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

[Lancaster, David]

Quoting Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>:

> 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.

My weekly stats for incoming external email are 2360/453488, or 0.5%
Internally, we had 6/136559, or 0.004%
These are figures for # of mail messsages, not # of recipients.

D.