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]"
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
>>
>>
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