A quarter of all email includes a vicious link

That is the perhaps unsurprising warning contained in the MessageLabs Intelligence 2007 Security Report which was published today. In a double whammy of bad news, MessageLabs warn that spam is the most dominant menace on the IT security agenda with spam levels reaching a whopping 84.6 percent across the course of the year, plus of course the fact that 25 percent of email comes complete with a malicious link to take you directly to something very nasty indeed.