New virus warning

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
...
>And is it me, or has spam gotten worse in the last 2 months?  My last few
>MailBlock reports showed me 8200+, then 9100+, then 10600+, and yesterday I
>just saw one that said 11800+ messages blocked in a 14-day period.  And
>that -discounts- the ones that sneak through that my own software catches,
>which is about another 5-10% on top of that.  Seems like spam is actually
>increasing, not decreasing.

The mail server we have designated as secondary MX for several of our ISP ,
and many of our commercial customers is rejecting over 60,000 connections
per day, mostly no rDNS, major DNSBLs (e.g.  spamhaus.org and a couple of
others), and HELOs that appear only from Windows viruses running zombies
planted by worms vectored through OutHouse and IE.

Bill
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