On days like this, I really think I should pick up this T-Shirt. I've been tempted by it for a while. Just sayin'.
That said, now that the thingy has been in place for more than 24 hours I have some interesting data to play with. Unlike previous estimates, the appliance has handled 'only' 230,000 emails in the 24 hours period defined as 9am to 9am today. This is about a fifth of previous estimates, which makes me wonder what we were counting.
What's also interesting is how few viruses have been detected. It looks like the era of the mass mailer worm is largely over. Of that 230K odd mails, only 240 viruses were found. Most of them were mass-mailers, of course, but this is not the way things were even 3 years ago.This appliance is an anti-spam appliance that also does anti-virus, not the other way around like some other appliances I can think of.
That said, now that the thingy has been in place for more than 24 hours I have some interesting data to play with. Unlike previous estimates, the appliance has handled 'only' 230,000 emails in the 24 hours period defined as 9am to 9am today. This is about a fifth of previous estimates, which makes me wonder what we were counting.
What's also interesting is how few viruses have been detected. It looks like the era of the mass mailer worm is largely over. Of that 230K odd mails, only 240 viruses were found. Most of them were mass-mailers, of course, but this is not the way things were even 3 years ago.