Email viruses hitting Australians harder

The number of email viruses targeting Australians is on the rise, with Australia last month experiencing the biggest growth in attacks of any country. [ Tell me about it ]

One in 84.1 emails or 1.2 per cent of email traffic contains a virus, up from 0.4 per cent of email traffic the month before, MessageLabs' Intelligence Report for October 2006 said. The global ratio was 1 per cent of email traffic. This ranks Australia 12th out of all countries, where it was "previously at the bottom of the list", the report said.

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