On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:15:32PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > This has got more than a joke now. We are being bombarded with s-x spam yet > again. ... > Sorry if this sounds a bit sarcastic, but I'm feeling sarcastic at the moment, > as I don't want this cr-p on my machine. I know this doesn't really help you, but I've seen a *massive* increase in spam hitting my one server in the last couple of days. Previously I was seeing something like 50 spam a day hitting me (this is after clamav kicks out the virus laden ones, so its not an absolute number). In the last couple of days, I've seen that number pretty much quadruple to around 200 per day. My false negatives have gone up correspondingly as well from a couple getting through spamassassin per day to something like 30-50 getting past s-a. Interestingly the subjects I'm seeing come through d-u are exactly the same as the ones getting through my local s-a, so some spammer has hit on a formula that is working at the moment. Apparently, this girl is having quite a problem make her extra-curricular activities work in a satisfactory manner... ;-O Not only has the overall number gone up, but the effectiveness has gone up by an order of magnitude. I wonder if this is a side-effect of the mis-named Storm Worm activity that's going on right now. > > I don't have a shotgun, or hunting rifle, but I'd be game for an organised > shoot if the spammers were the targets. I need targets to practice my joint-locks and choke-holds on... ;) A
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