"Spam is more than just annoying. Unless there is a good mail filter system in place, workers will waste a lot of time deleting junk mail. It could also contain malicious code, and therefore represents a risk to corporate security," explains Victor Omaechevarria of Panda Software.
Ninety Percent of Mail Received by Companies in May was Spam
"Spam is more than just annoying."
According to data compiled by Panda Software, 90 percent of e-mail that reached companies in May was spam.
"Spam is more than just annoying. Unless there is a good mail filter system in place, workers will waste a lot of time deleting junk mail. It could also contain malicious code, and therefore represents a risk to corporate security," explains Victor Omaechevarria of Panda Software.
With respect to malicious code, worms from the Netsky family and Trojans from the SpamtaLoad family were the malware most frequently detected. The iFrame exploit was also responsible for numerous incidents. This is an HTML code that tries to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
"Spam is more than just annoying. Unless there is a good mail filter system in place, workers will waste a lot of time deleting junk mail. It could also contain malicious code, and therefore represents a risk to corporate security," explains Victor Omaechevarria of Panda Software.
