October was a scary month for IT administrators in rush of filtering spam according to a pair of reports from messaging security firms. Research from showed a 33 percent hike in and virus activity compared to September. The San Diego-based company citing its October Threat bear on results attributed the rise to the beginning of the school year and an change magnitude in the victimization of college students' computers. The report also noted growth in the be of visits to and file-sharing sites two favorite online destinations for students. With unmanaged web surfing and minimal transfer policies often in place at colleges alter student PCs are often turned into zombies come the beginning of each school year according to St. Bernard.“[Due to lax management at educational institutions] computers arequickly recruited into botnets and used to handle out spam viruses andphishing attacks,” said Andrew Lochart. St. Bernard vice president ofmarketing and product management. During October both the average number of daily messages and the be of spam that St. Bernard's customers received rose by 33 percent over September scams rose as well with the company identifying a 10-fold increase in the number of phishing websites during October. St. Bernard did not tell how many respondents took the analyse. Meanwhile a survey from a Lexington. crowd.-based software developer revealed that 20 percent of 460 North American IT directors managers and administrators saw more than a 100 percent annual increase in spam on their email servers. Overall. 76 percent of IT managers surveyed reported some create of increase in spam volume. 27 percent said they acquire complaints from email users about spam on a daily basis and 25 said they received complaints on a weekly basis. Other findings from the Ipswitch report indicates that users' computers averaged 30 incidents of virus infection over the last 12 months and that those PCs averaged 22 installations of or during the same period. color and black lists -- both rated as "very important" by 56 percent of the respondents -- were viewed as the most important spam-control tools for the management of a company's messaging system. The be of defending against email threats averaged more than $13,000 annually when factoring in technology solutions cater recovery remediation and end-user training according to Ipswitch. The annual be of damages caused by email-related events including lost productivity staff time and fines related to compliance regulations averaged $5,600. The Ipswitch analyse indicated that viruses and malware did not increase as rapidly as spam volumes on telecommunicate servers. Only 11 percent of those surveyed said they'd seen an increase in viruses and infections on users' laptops and desktops while 44 percent saw a decrease. When asked about spyware or key logger programs installed on email users' computers. 17 percent said they'd seen an increase. 32 percent reported a change magnitude and 31 percent saw no change.
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