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In order to maintain our leading position as an anti-spam solution provider, Barracuda Networks collects spam information from deployed Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewalls as well as from our "Spam Traps" in thousands of locations around the Internet. This information is analyzed and broken down to identify the latest tricks and trends in the spam world. Below is a current summary of the latest spam traffic from across the Barracuda Network.

Processed Email (daily)

Day

Total Received

Blocked: Spam

Blocked: Virus

Quarantined

Allowed: Tagged

Allowed

Yesterday 07/2
2,216,497,203		(100%)
2,052,232,535		(92.59%)
97,933		(0.00%)
11,899,217		(0.54%)
12,514,846		(0.56%)
139,752,672		(6.31%)

Today 07/3 (so far)
1,459,543,626		(100%)
1,390,465,477		(95.27%)
78,463		(0.01%)
6,689,298		(0.46%)
6,000,878		(0.41%)
56,309,510		(3.86%)

Processed Email (hourly)

Time (GMT)

Total Received

Blocked: Spam

Blocked: Virus

Quarantined

Allowed: Tagged

Allowed:

08:00 PM
102,519,436		(100%)
97,853,756		(95.45%)
12,603		(0.01%)
448,743		(0.44%)
473,569		(0.46%)
3,730,765		(3.64%)

09:00 PM
100,915,348		(100%)
96,499,303		(95.62%)
12,177		(0.01%)
418,213		(0.41%)
450,665		(0.45%)
3,534,990		(3.50%)

10:00 PM
96,665,648		(100%)
92,692,929		(95.89%)
10,152		(0.01%)
408,526		(0.42%)
437,172		(0.45%)
3,116,869		(3.22%)

All times in GMT (EST offset is -5 hours)

Allowed

Allowed: Tagged

Quarantined

Blocked: Virus

Blocked: Spam

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