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Spam Rates Massively Down On Shutdown Of Rogue ISP


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#1 OFFLINE   Humpty

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Posted 13 November 2008 - 10:32 PM

Still getting a few spam here. :angry:

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Several major news outlets are reporting that the shutdown of a rogue ISP in the Bay Area has lead to a massive drop in the global amount of spam. While this is “good thing”, this event is not an end of spam, nor is it even the beginning of the end of spam; it is merely a temporary lull.

Thanks in no small part to evidence gathered by Brian Krebs, The San Jose based McColo was dropped from the Internet yesterday resulting in a massive decline in spam rates around the globe. The common consensus right now is that the takedown resulted in a 35% to 50% drop in inbound spam sending attempts.
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Posted 13 November 2008 - 11:51 PM

I never get spam anymore. It's a nice feeling. I don't even need a filter but I still use one.

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Posted 15 November 2008 - 02:54 AM

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A Closer Look at McColo

Yesterday, we published a story about Web hosting firm McColo being knocked offline after being accused by the computer security community of serving as a gateway to organizations engaged in spam activity.
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Posted 26 November 2008 - 02:20 PM

Bad news

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Spam Volumes Expected to Rise with Botnet Resurrection

Spam volumes could rise considerably over the next few days now that one of the world's largest networks of compromised computers used for blasting out junk e-mail was brought back to life tonight.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityf...ml?nav=rss_blog

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http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.p...ost&p=36481
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