Anyone else see a bit of an uptick in the amount of spam hitting their server these last couple days? Because I sure have, and it's probably attributable to n00bs connecting their brand-new yet still-inadequately-patched Windows boxes up to the net.
So many new zombie relays to be exploited, the spammers must've been licking their chops in anticipation on Christmas Eve.
Yep. I keep my personal addresses pretty well armored, but as a matter of principle I leave 'postmaster' open (i.e. "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>=postmaster" in the router) and it is absolutely stunning how much the spam rate has spiked in the past few days. I expect that your analysis is correct, because the biggest boost I see is in the crap being sent by spam trojans. In fact, this burst has confirmed for me that a particularly complex spam pattern that I've been seeing increase over the past month or two has to be carried in some sort of worm, because the Christmas burst is too pronounced to be explained by anything else.
(As a result, I am about to block all msn.com addresses from my personal server... not recommended for general application...)
-- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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