Holy cow! You may have noticed the most recent outbreak of spam. Turns out it is the worst in more than twelves months. Read more about it from ComputerWorld here.

Postini has already counted nearly 5 million copies of the spam in the last 24 hours, and calculated that the run currently accounts for 87% of all malware being spread through e-mail. Spam rates have jumped as well; Postini said 79% of all e-mail is now spam, while rival MessageLabs Ltd. reported a 13% jump in spam’s slice of all messages in just one hour. “Expect this to grow much larger,” Swidler said. “It should top out at 60 million messages within the next 24 hours.”