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RE: VIRUS ALERT, do not open attached ZIP file fromOracle-Lmember

From: rob zijlstra <rmsah_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:16:20 +0200
Message-Id: <200407091816.i69IGT35033977@smtp-out4.xs4all.nl>


11% ??
I do not know how it is with you, but in my household I think less then 11% of the paper that is thrown in the mailbox is 'real' mail. The rest is unsollicited 'junk'. So I think 11% 'might' be reasonable...

Rob Zijlstra

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jacques Kilchoer
Sent: vrijdag 9 juli 2004 19:15
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: VIRUS ALERT, do not open attached ZIP file fromOracle-Lmember

>From ComputerWorld:

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,1 0801,94378,00.html

[Postini] manages e-mail for about 3,300 companies and 5 million e-mail users. Postini uses its own algorithms to spot spam, denial-of-service attacks and other threats by analyzing the behavior of Internet-connected machines that send e-mail and, after that, the message content.=20

Since October 2003, the company began aggregating information on Internet Protocol addresses of machines attempting to e-mail its customers and dropping connection attempts from IP addresses that are behaving suspiciously. Since that time, the percentage of dropped connections swelled from 35% of all connections to the current 53%, he said.=20

...

Of the 47% of e-mail connections accepted, 76% of the mail accepted is spam and 1% to 2% are viruses. Only 11% of the 10.75 billion SMTP connections the company receives each month constitutes legitimate e-mail messages, Postini said.=20

-----Original Message-----
Ron Rogers

Dick,
 I fear that the reference to spam could end email as we know it is a reasonable truth.



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