Ugh...Ok, lets all cross our fingers, turn around three times, and throw a pinch of salt over our left shoulders so it doesn't happen...
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <declude.junkmail@declude.com> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:32 AM Subject: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Flooded with spam If this year goes like last year then much worse is yet to come. See the bottom of this chart: http://reports.messagesniffer.com/Performance/FlowRatesByDay.jsp _M On Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 9:24:34 PM, gbirdsall wrote: gsc> I've seen a 100-130% increase since Sunday. An average day used to be gsc> around 500k-550k Spam messages, the past two days have been 950k and 1.2 gsc> million, respectivly. gsc> One thing we implemented was session based blocking in our firewall, we gsc> were getting between 200 and 4000 (not a typo) simultanious sessions from gsc> IP addresses. We now grab that and block IPs based on this information. gsc> It has helped already today. gsc> - greg >> Just checking with the list if they have seen an increase in the amount of >> spam messages caught. >> >> Last monday and tuesday my mail servers are flooded with spam. >> >> My smartermail server that usually process 30 to 40 K per day, processed >> on >> monday 120K and 94K of them where caught as spam. >> >> On tuesday processed aprox 110K, and 85K where spam. >> >> My spool and forward server processed over 140K yesterday. Reviewing the >> spool I would say that almost all spam, a lot of them trying to relay on >> my >> backup server >> >> Do you guys saw this spam increase?. >> >> btw. message sniffer, INVURIBL and declude worked fine.. I am happy I have >> them. >> >> regards >> >> Luis Arango >> >> >> --- >> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >> at http://www.mail-archive.com. gsc> --- gsc> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To gsc> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and gsc> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found gsc> at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
