Virus levels declining?

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Marc Hoffman

Hi All...

After installing an antivirus component onto our email server back in March
of 2004, we've noticed a pretty steady decline in the number of viruses
trying to enter via email starting in June 2004:

April 2004 - 3623
May 2004 - 4302
June 2004 - 4437
July 2004 - 3589
August 2004 - 2993
September 2004 - 1684
October 2004 - 1094
November 2004 - 1757 (this is the only month that we actually saw a spike in
the number of viruses)
December 2004 - 969
January 2005 - 555 (this is our lowest number of viruses since April)

This appears to be VERY good news, as email-borne viruses appear to be on
the decline. Perhaps this is due to Service Pack 2? In any case, has anyone
else observed these trends?

Marc
 
Hi All...

After installing an antivirus component onto our email server back in March
of 2004, we've noticed a pretty steady decline in the number of viruses
trying to enter via email starting in June 2004:

April 2004 - 3623
May 2004 - 4302
June 2004 - 4437
July 2004 - 3589
August 2004 - 2993
September 2004 - 1684
October 2004 - 1094
November 2004 - 1757 (this is the only month that we actually saw a spike in
the number of viruses)
December 2004 - 969
January 2005 - 555 (this is our lowest number of viruses since April)

This appears to be VERY good news, as email-borne viruses appear to be on
the decline. Perhaps this is due to Service Pack 2? In any case, has anyone
else observed these trends?
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XPSP2 is one reason - but lets not forget the increased crackdown on
viruswriters. You will probably find that the arrests are almost
directly proportional to decreasing trend - with the exception of
November where bagle's upset this trend.


Regards,
Ian Kenefick
http://www.IK-CS.com
 
Hi All...

After installing an antivirus component onto our email server back in March
of 2004, we've noticed a pretty steady decline in the number of viruses
trying to enter via email starting in June 2004:

April 2004 - 3623
May 2004 - 4302
June 2004 - 4437
July 2004 - 3589
August 2004 - 2993
September 2004 - 1684
October 2004 - 1094
November 2004 - 1757 (this is the only month that we actually saw a spike in
the number of viruses)
December 2004 - 969
January 2005 - 555 (this is our lowest number of viruses since April)

This appears to be VERY good news, as email-borne viruses appear to be on
the decline. Perhaps this is due to Service Pack 2? In any case, has anyone
else observed these trends?

Marc
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************** REPLY SEPARATER ****************
Yes Virus traffic is down, but the biggest single reason is the expiry of the
W32/Sober.i/j virus in early January. At the time it accounted for about 98% of
our virus traffic, and no new virus has taken it's place YET. XP SP2 in my
humble opinion had zero to do with it.

J.A. Coutts

J.A. Coutts
 
Marc Hoffman said:
After installing an antivirus component onto our email server back in March
of 2004, we've noticed a pretty steady decline in the number of viruses
trying to enter via email starting in June 2004:
Click to expand...
This appears to be VERY good news, as email-borne viruses appear to be on
the decline. Perhaps this is due to Service Pack 2? In any case, has anyone
else observed these trends?
Click to expand...

A few days ago someone posted a similar observation to the focus-
virus mailing list. The consensus of responses was that s/he was
clearly seeing atypical traffic.

The MessageLabs data someone else pointed out shows that large-
scale monitoring suggests that the rate of growth is falling,
which is a quite different thing from the actual levels declining.

I'd hazard that your Email microcosm is either too small (so as to
be totally atypical) or your data are "suffering" (???) from
increasingly better up-stream scanning and blocking.
 
On that special day, John Coutts, ([email protected])
said...
Yes Virus traffic is down, but the biggest single reason is the expiry of the
W32/Sober.i/j virus in early January.
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Which is followed by the Sober.J/Idunnowhat, released on January 31st,
that was in my mailbox at this very same day. So better stay alert...


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
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