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More Than 90% Of Email Is Spam

Spam messages in the first quarter of 2008 accounted for 92.3 percent of all email sent according to a new report from Sophos.During this period Sophos found 23,300 new spam related Web pages everyday, or about one every three seconds.For the first time Turkey was in the top three of offending countries sending spam. Compromised computers in Turkey accounted for 5.9 percent of the globe's spam, compared to 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007.

Japanese Police Bust Virus Writer

Police in Kyoto have arrested three men, who were involved in a plot to infect users of the P2P file-sharing network Winny with a Trojan horse that displayed images of anime characters while erasing music and movie files.The malware called Harada is thought to be connected to the Pirlames Trojan horse which anti-spam firm Sophos reported blocking in Japan last year. The three men have admitted they took part in the crime. One man wrote the malware, while the other two are thought to have distributed the malicious code through Winny.