Q1 2008 Email Threats Trend Report

Zombies, Spammers, Fraudsters and Malware Writers

This April 2008 report from Proofpoint and Commtouch reviews the new techniques that spammers and malware distributors used to deploy their malicious software during Q1 2008. Spam levels ranged from 60 to 94 percent of all email hroughout the quarter. Malware distributors and spammers hid their unwanted messages within legitimate or legitimate-appearing web sites and messages. Mortgage refinancing spam jumped to 10% of all spam in January while holidays continued to be celebrated in spam and malware.

On average, 355,000 zombies were newly activated each day for the purpose of malicious activity.

Download this free report and learn about the rapidly changing state of malware distribution and why signature-based anti-virus protection alone cannot fully protect today's enterprise.

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About Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus

The Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus™ module, a component of the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ and Proofpoint Protection Server®, protects enterprises against new viruses and other forms of malicious code during the critical first hours after new viruses are released and before anti-virus signatures have been updated.

To protect large organizations from emerging virus attacks, Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus combines global analysis of Internet traffic patterns with local containment of suspicious messages and attachments.

Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus constantly analyzes millions of Internet messages for anomalies that indicate a potential virus attack. Advanced pattern recognition technology is used to identify new viruses within minutes of their mass distribution over the internet with greater than 95% accuracy.

At the customer’s site, Proofpoint Zero-Hour Anti-Virus analyzes incoming messages for similarities with suspected virus messages. Messages and attachments that exhibit recurrent pattern characteristics of the emerging virus are automatically quarantined at the enterprise gateway where they can be held until the availability of a production-ready virus signature.

Learn more about protecting your enterprise from zero-hour threats by downloading this free whitepaper from Proofpoint, Inc.