Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

On 8-May-2009, at 09:12, Randy wrote: They are wrong. A large volume spammer started about a 2 weeks ago. This includes the *png spam and others I know are the same spammer becuase it all started at once. Our spam levels are up 100%. My spam for April was up about 50% (not delivered, but tot

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

Chris Hoogendyk wrote: The first quarter ended just over a week ago. Actually, it ended over a month ago. Michael Scheidell wrote: > looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? > wonder what that is about. I'm not seeing a drop in ATTEMPTED spam I see a recent (late april or early may) increa

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

Maybe it's an old story. I saw a drop last fall but it's come back since then. Jason Staudenmayer wrote: -Original Message- From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:scheid...@secnap.net] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:57 AM To: SpamAssassin Users List Subject: mcafee sees dr

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

Randy wrote: Michael Scheidell wrote: looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? wonder what that is about. I'm not seeing a drop in ATTEMPTED spam (I see MORE ATTEMPTED spam). Mostly this new 'blank email with a png' in it. Sanesecurity rules seem to be keeping up with it for the most p

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

Martin Hepworth wrote: Spamcop stats don't show this - yes the number of picture spams is going up, but not spam generally. http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK 2009/5/8 Michael Scheidell > looks like mcafee sees a 20

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

Spamcop stats don't show this - yes the number of picture spams is going up, but not spam generally. http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK 2009/5/8 Michael Scheidell > looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? > > wonder what that is about. I'm not se

RE: mcafee sees drop in spam?

-Original Message- From: Randy [mailto:rramsd...@livedatagroup.com] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 11:13 To: SpamAssassin Users List Subject: Re: mcafee sees drop in spam? Michael Scheidell wrote: > looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? > > wonder what that is about. I'

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

Michael Scheidell wrote: looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? wonder what that is about. I'm not seeing a drop in ATTEMPTED spam (I see MORE ATTEMPTED spam). Mostly this new 'blank email with a png' in it. Sanesecurity rules seem to be keeping up with it for the most part. I wonder w

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

> looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? > Sorry, someone asked me for the reference to the mcafee story: McAfee Reports Huge Drop in Spam ­ Ellen Messmer, Network World May 05, 2009 Global e-mail spam volumes have dropped 20% for the first quarter this year compared with the same period

RE: mcafee sees drop in spam?

> -Original Message- > From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:scheid...@secnap.net] > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:57 AM > To: SpamAssassin Users List > Subject: mcafee sees drop in spam? > > > looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? > > wonder what that is

mcafee sees drop in spam?

looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? wonder what that is about. I'm not seeing a drop in ATTEMPTED spam (I see MORE ATTEMPTED spam). Mostly this new 'blank email with a png' in it. Sanesecurity rules seem to be keeping up with it for the most part. I wonder what they are using to count