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JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesian health authorities have contained an outbreak of the chikungunya virus in a village in South Sumatra after about a sixth of the population there were infected, a doctor said. “It is now under control as our teams have intervened quite early in Sungai Dua (village),” said Syahrul Muhammad, the head of the South Sumatra province health office on Monday.

He told AFP that the outbreak began at the end of …

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SoftScan, a provider of a hosted spam and virus e-mail filtering service, has announced its August spam and virus statistics.

According to the company, the percentage of viruses was only 1.02% in all e-mails scanned by SoftScan in August 2006. 89.50% of all viruses stopped by SoftScan were classified as phishing. The percentage of phishing e-mails stopped by SoftScan has increased in the last few months. However, SoftScan believes this is not a real increase in the number of phishing e-mails sent, but rather a result of improved or additional detection by anti-virus scanners.

The percentage of spam remained very high at 87.72%, but SoftScan expects it to reduce in September, when the traditional summer holiday season comes to a close. Then the increase in legitimate business email will push the percentage of spam back to its more regular level of 85%, SoftScan claims.

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