Link clicking idiots

Want to know how much of a problem link-clicking has become? The MessageLabs Intelligence report says that at the beginning of 2007, only a meagre 3 per cent of email-borne viruses contained a malicious link. By the end of the year, that had increased to 25 per cent. The threat landscape starts to become clearer when you add some background detail to these figures; detail such as nearly half a million new websites dishing up malware appeared across the year. Put another way, that’s 1,250 new sites appearing every single day with no purpose beyond sending you something nasty.