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Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline
From: Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:25:06 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Ferguson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
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You're not the only person to notice this. :-) http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/11/12/1653883.aspx ...and previously (last night): http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/11/12/1653833.aspx - ferg
The last couple of days have been a spam roller-coaster. I saw about a 90% drop off on our spam attempt volume for about 18 hours after these guys were taken out. Same thing for a couple of clients that use managed anti-spam appliance. Then, it took off again. Clients are back up to about 80% of 7 day average blocked volume. I am seeing volume that is exceeding my 7 day average. I guess this is just another 'whack-a-mole' problem... JonK - -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. Charleston, SC USA o: 843-849-8214 c: 843-224-2494 s: 843-564-4224 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonrkibler My PGP Fingerprint is: BAA2 1F2C 5543 5D25 4636 A392 515C 5045 CF39 4253 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkcDpIACgkQUVxQRc85QlOaNACcCwr4hHWufYcy2lIjjV5t1ih4 GR0AoI8FFroBSan6vDUgpAloqLyGx458 =sJnw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================== Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email.
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