I get a lot of spam, and a lot of viruses. Yesterday I decided to keep all the spam sent to my work address, and then examine it. This is what I found:
- Total pieces of spam received yesterday: 119
- Total number of viruses received: 58
- Spam related to real estate: 2
- Spam related to legal sexual activity: 8
- Spam related to illegal sexual activity: 6
- Spam related to search engine submission: 22
- Spam related to get-rich-quick schemes: 19
- Spam related to music events: 31
- Spam related to computer/network security: 5
- Spam related to weight loss programmes: 14
- Foreign language spam: 11
- Snow White virus: 3 times
- Klez virus: 28 times
- Sircam virus: 6 times
- Badtrans virus: 5 times
- Gibe virus: 5 times
- Magistr virus: 2 times
- Win XP Patch virus: 1 time
- Unknown viruses not picked up by either of the two anti-virus programmes my incoming mail goes through: 8
All in a days work…
And I thought no one else got more spam than me.
You know, I don’t remember the last time I got sent a virus to my home email address…maybe it’s because they don’t self-propigate through Macs, so my self-selection of email buddies acts as a bit of a control?
(not that they’re ALL on Macs…but probably a majority are)