New virus warning

[Ken Cole]

Our company has recently migrated to a central world wide e-mail service
provided by HP, we currently have about 9000 users on it with 3-4k more
yet to migrate.

With the migration we pre-process all e-mail thru a third party e-mail
"clensing" house.

Currently 83% of all e-mail being recived for those 9000 users is spam.
Lets say each user gets only 10 e-mails/day that's 90000 e-mails and
that's 74700 spam messages to our company alone each day.  BTW, the
actual numbers are much higher than 10 e-maisl/user/day.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Campbell [mailto:bill at celestial.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 9 April 2004 3:39 PM
> To: Filepro 2 List
> Subject: Re: New virus warning
> 
> 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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