On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 01:08 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > No wonder I have seen such a huge drop in spam the past few days: > > ??? I get 18-26 mio spams (36 servers with 96.000 users) per day and > nothing has changed. Please read the news (not only one) more carefully
See the CBL report [1] about this. Also links to a WSJ article. As another source, check out the spamcop.net statistics, by now showing the (absence of) almost daily spikes. That was Rustock. > > Anyone else been noticing the decrease in spam? > > No, because there are ore then one Botnet of this size now... Others clearly have noticed, going by what I have read the last days. Unfortunately, I didn't -- or rather, my personal spam volume went down months ago quite significantly, for whatever reason. Almost like one botnet (Rustock?) completely forgot about me at that time already... My personal spam in-stream has been a lot less botnet generated for a while. Though I really cannot say the same about 419 scams. *sigh* [1] http://cbl.abuseat.org/rustock.html -- char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
