TelkomInternet reported on Friday that it had quarantined 512 325 virus infected email messages since the beginning of February. Of these, 467 174 were infected with the data-destroyer MyDoom virus.
The figures reported were marginally higher than those from late January when the virus began decimating data around the globe.
Craig Medefindt, product specialist of TelkomInternet, said: “TelkomInternet is aware of the risks that virus infections pose for customers. Telkom has a dedicated team who seek innovative solutions to new threats which affect data integrity.”
Telkom’s internet tools, such as anti-virus and spam filtering, block destructive data, as in the case of the Sobig.F bug last year.
TelkomInternet tools, which are supplied free as part of the package, come in handy as internet users the world over battle cyber attacks.
TelkomInternet operates a blocking system through qmail scanner, which provides plug-in anti-virus and anti-spam capabilities to the Telkom internet mail system.
This is based on the Open-Source Clam virus scanner and the Open Anti-Virus database, with virus definitions being automatically updated every 12 hours from the global threat database, or manually at any time if a new threat is identified. — I-Net Bridge