AFTER A BRIEF drop in spam levels, they’re back up to making 90 per cent of all scanned email, reports the Softscan security team.

June has been up and down with spam levels – with some days reaching a comparitively low figure of 86 per cent of all emails – but also reaching a record high of 96.55 per cent of all the email Softscan saw. The peak for June weekdays was 91.36 per cent.

Top boy at Softscan Diego d’Ambra reckons the fluctuating spam levels don’t signify a change for the better “since the overall trend is so high”.

But while there’s still tons of spam floating about on the net, the number of intercepted emails that were carrying viruses fell in June to just 0.61 per cent.

Over 96 per cent of malicious emails for June were phishing attempts, followed by pesky netsky, stration, bagle and mytop as the next big hitters respectively.

More information [The Inquirer]