Tag archive: MessageLabs

A funny thing happened over the end-of-year 2010 holiday season: levels of spam email on the Internet declined precipitously, with Symantec's MessageLabs reporting that levels have dropped to the lowest point since the shutdown of spam-friendly ISP McColo back in 2008. And while the decline seems to be attributable to three major botnets shutting down…nobody knows why those botnets might have gone quiet. “At present we… Read More

Security company Symantec has reached into its wallet and spent $695 million on MessageLabs, with plans to pull into technology into its Symantec Protection Network Team. MessageLabs is a messaging and security company. MessageLabs customers will be moved to the Symantec Protection Network Team, then to a new Symantec SaaS (software-as-a-service) product group. John W. Thompson, chairman and chief executive at Symantec, said:… Read More

MessageLabs is offering a free webinar entitled “The week the email security landscape shifted” on Wednesday February 11. “The last week of January 2004 proved to be one of the busiest and most challenging in the world of email security. Whether the impact of the numerous virus outbreaks that occurred is the blueprint for things to come remains to be seen. What we can be sure of is that if multiple viruses continue to be… Read More

British security firm MessageLabs is reporting that this week's “Mydoom” worm has become the fastest spreading virus ever. MessageLabs, reports it has intercepted more than 1.2 million copies of the new mass-mailer worm known as W32/Mydoom.A-mm and is seeing a peak infection rate of 1 in 12 emails. MessageLabs has issued a high-level alert for businesses. The worm was first intercepted by MessageLabs on January… Read More

Why people are still clicking on executables in their e-mail we'll never know, but the “Bagle” virus that caused problems earlier in the week is starting to die down. According to MessageLabs, “W32/Bagle-mm is a mass mailing worm that arrives in an executable attachment. Analysis suggests that the worm includes a backdoor component that listens for connection to a malicious user and can send notification of an… Read More