Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon &
Hannah <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:

> Date sent:              Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:22:42 -0800
> From:                   Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
>
> > On Monday, Security Fix contacted the Internet providers that manage
> > more than 90 percent of the company's connection to the larger Internet,
> > sending them information about badness at McColo as documented by the
> > security industry.
>
> > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_onl
> > ine _scams_a.html
>
> Interesting.  Recently one address fell from about 300 spam per day down
> to about 50.  Another went from roughly 150 down to about 20.  However,
> that was about two weeks ago, not Monday.

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

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