Monday, 10 September 2007

One In 28 emails in India Virus Infected

A recent study said that one in every 28 emails reaching India is infected with Virus. The study, by MessageLabs said malicious websites are also on the rise...

A recent study said that one in every 28 emails reaching India is infected with Virus. The study, by MessageLabs said malicious websites are also on the rise.

In August 2007, India was the most vulnerable country in the world in virus attacks, with one in every 27.8 e-mails having been infected. However, during this period, spam attacks, accounted for only 29.5 per cent of the total e-mails received, the study said.

A new virus, StormWorm, which uses virtual postcards and YouTube video for its attack, is affecting computers. It also found that there was a rise in e-mails containing links to virtual postcards and YouTube video invites.

According to the study, StormWorm worldwide has affected 1.8 million computers.

On August 15, the day India celebrated its 60th Independence day, there was a significant outburst of new malicious websites comprising 600,000 e-mails, which were distributed in just 24 hours.

As a result of this latest StormWorm activity, the number of e-mails that contained links to malicious code increased to 19.5 per cent in August, a rise of 19 per cent from the July figure of just 0.5 per cent