Symantec Corporation, on March 1, 2011, declared its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for February 2011, according to which, spam increased to a maximum of 81.3% during February 2011, recording a 2.7% rise from January 2011. Symantec.cloud published this on March 1, 2011.

In its yearly research paper published on February 24, 2011, the IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) reveals that during 2010, the agency got 303,809 complaints compared to 336,655 during 2009, accounting for a fall of 10%. PCWorld published this on February 25, 2011.

According to Trend Micro the security company, fresh spam mails in bulk are hitting the inboxes of business users while trying for contaminating their systems with Zeus, the infamous Trojan that steals banking information.

According to Websense the security company's Security Labs, a 'malvertising' run lately struck the widely visited movie website, Myvue.com and the website for auto trading, Autotrader.co.uk as a result of which the two pushed advertisements, which diverted visitors onto malevolent websites.