Re: Massive increase in spam volume?

["David M. Dinner" <ddinner () obtix net>]

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Thamer Al-Harbash 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.
|

Yeah, I have noticed the same thing. I was gone all weekend and was
checking my mail server remotely, I was wondering what all the extra
unusual bandwidth was coming from. It was only until I got back to my
apt. where I was able to check into it more, not only did I/my mail
server have a rare increase of spam; the new spam messages seemed to
pass through the filters I have in place.

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