Are virus rates declining?

From: Marc Hoffman (mhoffman_at_morrisprintinggroup.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:42:32 -0600

Hi All...

After installing an antivirus component onto our email server back in March
of 2004, we've noticed a pretty steady decline in the number of viruses
trying to enter via email starting in June 2004:

April 2004 - 3623
May 2004 - 4302
June 2004 - 4437
July 2004 - 3589
August 2004 - 2993
September 2004 - 1684
October 2004 - 1094
November 2004 - 1757 (this is the only month that we actually saw a spike in
the number of viruses)
December 2004 - 969
January 2005 - 555 (this is our lowest number of viruses since April)

This appears to be VERY good news, as email-borne viruses appear to be on
the decline. Perhaps this is due to Service Pack 2? In any case, has anyone
else observed these trends?

Marc

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