264.6 billion spam messages sent per day, roughly 90% of the overall e-mail traffic over the Internet. 10% of spam e-mails with malicious attachments are rigged with malware or carry phishing forms, says Bitdefender. Two million spam messages hit the Internet every second, with 1.14% of messages carrying malicious attachments and phishing. Most attachments were found to carry viruses, including Win32.Mytob.C@mm, notorious for the takedown of CNN Live services on August 16, 2005.”]

