Global Spam Levels Continue to Soar During May 2004, Virus Levels Stabilize

Updated on Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 at 6:58 pm

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Unsolicited emails, or spam, surged to an all-time high in May representing as much as three-quarters of all email traffic, according to a survey.

The internet security firm MessageLabs said of some 909 million emails scanned at its customers, 691.5 million were intercepted as spam, or 76 per cent. The firm said the percentage of virus-infected emails held steady at around 9.1 per cent.

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