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S'pore gets more spam
By Serene Luo
About 85 out of every 100 e-mail messages sent to companies and individuals here were spam mails - the kind that advertise copies of watches, fake drugs or implements that can enhance various body parts. --ST PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER LOH NJ
MORE unwanted mail makes it to Singapore than the global average.
About 85 out of every 100 e-mail messages sent to companies and individuals here were spam mails - the kind that advertise copies of watches, fake drugs or implements that can enhance various body parts.
This is about 10 percentage points more than the global average of around 75 out of 100 e-mail messages which are spam.
Singapore is just slightly behind Hong Kong, where almost 89 out of every 100 e-mail messages are spam ones.
Australia, China and Japan get around the same amount of spam as Singapore, while the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands receive significantly fewer spam mails - under 70 out of every 100 e-mails.
However, in terms of viruses sent through e-mails, Singapore received just half the global average.
Recipients here would get just one infected e-mail out of every 534 e-mails scanned, compared to the global average of one out of every 281 e-mails.
The UK was the stinker in this area, where one out of every 170 e-mails contained malicious software.
Companies in the education sector received the most e-mail with malware - one out of every 96.
MessageLabs Intelligence, an arm of Internet security firm Symantec, gave these numbers in a report released on Wednesday. It monitored and scanned the online traffic of 19,000 customers in more than 86 countries.
S'pore gets more spam
By Serene Luo
About 85 out of every 100 e-mail messages sent to companies and individuals here were spam mails - the kind that advertise copies of watches, fake drugs or implements that can enhance various body parts. --ST PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER LOH NJ
MORE unwanted mail makes it to Singapore than the global average.
About 85 out of every 100 e-mail messages sent to companies and individuals here were spam mails - the kind that advertise copies of watches, fake drugs or implements that can enhance various body parts.
This is about 10 percentage points more than the global average of around 75 out of 100 e-mail messages which are spam.
Singapore is just slightly behind Hong Kong, where almost 89 out of every 100 e-mail messages are spam ones.
Australia, China and Japan get around the same amount of spam as Singapore, while the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands receive significantly fewer spam mails - under 70 out of every 100 e-mails.
However, in terms of viruses sent through e-mails, Singapore received just half the global average.
Recipients here would get just one infected e-mail out of every 534 e-mails scanned, compared to the global average of one out of every 281 e-mails.
The UK was the stinker in this area, where one out of every 170 e-mails contained malicious software.
Companies in the education sector received the most e-mail with malware - one out of every 96.
MessageLabs Intelligence, an arm of Internet security firm Symantec, gave these numbers in a report released on Wednesday. It monitored and scanned the online traffic of 19,000 customers in more than 86 countries.
