Spame attack halts Virgin e-mail

Thousands of Virgin customers were cut of from their Internet access for about 4 days due to a suspected spam attack.
The problem affected a company which processes messages delivered through the Virgin.net platform.
E-mails were held back when the large attack occurred on Tuesday; so that the spam could be removed.
There are about 200,000 people who use virgin.net, though under half of these where affected by the attack.
Those who couldn't use their email service were worried that they would loose mail, but Virgin Media stressed that no e-mails had been lost.