[LINK] the state of malware (including pdf stock spam)

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 10:55:52AM +0200, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> The stock tip scams are pushed aggressively, with tens of thousands of 
>> e-mails directed to individual domains within a time period as short as 
>> one hour. The idea behind these "spam spikes" is to push as many e-mails 
>> through before antispam systems can react and block the messages.

speaking of spam, has anyone else noticed a significant increase in spam
volume since about the middle of last week?

my home mail server normally rejects between 30 & 50,000 spam attempts
per week. last week, it was just under 70,000. and so far this week
(since sunday morning), it has rejected just over 42000....that's
21000/day rather than the more usual 5-10000.

looks to be mostly from windows zombies on dynamic ip addresses, almost
half of it spammed at non-existent addresses.

none of it is getting in, but it's flooding my logs with crap and wasting my
bandwidth.


i'm beginning to think that the spam problem will only be solved with a
global mandatory death penalty for spammers, with generous bounties to
hunt them down. and bonus bounties for 'inventive' ways of dispatching
the vermin. there's potential for a mega-popular reality-TV show in that
too.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>