Re: Massive increase in spam volume?

[Ken Budd <kbudd () 702com net>]

I have seen the same thing all weekend.  Our spam filter has caught most of
the traffic though.  It appears to me similar to a lot of worm activity I've
seen in the recent months.




On 4/24/04 1:54 PM, "Thamer Al-Harbash" <tmh () whitefang com> wrote:

> I work at a large ISP in Canada and just a few hours ago we've
> experienced a massive increase in spam volume. The volume is so
> high it's bordering on being a denial of service attack.
>
> Does anyone know if there's a worm out in the wild currently
> doing this? I've confirmed with some of my collegues that other
> ISPs are also experiencing this.
>
> I'm interested in finding specific netblocks but the spam seems
> to be coming from everywhere.


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