Re: [sniffer]Spam Storm - It's a big one.

2006-05-26 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Pete, Watch out for today's spam storm -- it's a lot bigger than we've seen in a long while. 48 hour image attached. This has low priority but. I've tried to find a live version of that graph you've sent but I cannot find it at

Re: [sniffer]spam storm

2006-05-23 Thread Greg Birdsall
Nothing too out of the ordinary here - ~17,000 blocked messages between 10-11 AM EST. Yesterday same time frame was ~16,000. - greg -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Computer House Support Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:35 AM To:

Re: [sniffer]spam storm

2006-05-23 Thread John Carter
For a couple days I have seen a increase in general spam (lots of male enhancements), but particularly Nigerian letters. John C -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Computer House Support Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:35 AM To: Message

Re: [sniffer]spam storm

2006-05-23 Thread Pete McNeil
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 10:35:01 AM, you wrote: Dear Sniffer Friends, Our servers are really getting slammed with spam. Is anyone else seeing a hugh spam storm right now? Hello Michael Sniffer Folks, http://reports.messagesniffer.com/Performance/FlowRates.jsp Logs since about 0523.0100

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
in the IMail archive and/or the IMail knowledge base. Bill -Original Message- From: Glenn Ratliff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:15 PM To: 'sniffer@SortMonster.com' Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert... This is question is a little off subject, but do you

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
Hmmm, a day and a half later this shows up on the list...??? Bill -Original Message- From: Landry William Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:51 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert... My only suggestion for QM is to disable DNS Cache and Failed Domain

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-31 Thread Landry William
31, 2005 9:19 AM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert... Hmmm, a day and a half later this shows up on the list...??? Bill -Original Message- From: Landry William Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 6:51 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert...

2005-01-29 Thread Glenn Ratliff
This is question is a little off subject, but do you have any recommendations for Imail queue manager settings? We are running Sniffer with declude 1.82 under Imail 8.15 and the server seems to bog down sometimes. Thanks, Glenn -- From: Pete McNeil[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [sniffer] Spam Storm Alert Follow Up

2005-01-24 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
For what it's worth, I'm definitely seeing an increase in volume over the weekend (double the spam, actually), and I believing it is tapering off already. In addition to the volume of separate messages, the number of recipients is generally up. The messages look generally like the kind of jobs

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread Pete McNeil
At 01:57 AM 3/26/2004, you wrote: I once noticed that transferring data through TCP/IP is NOT error-free, if the connection is very slow. At least not if it is going through Microsoft's software (Windows). Me 2. One possibility that has been suggested is that we could gzip these files. That

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread Pete McNeil
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 2:17 AM Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam storm? At 02:50 AM 3/26/2004, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Normally our bandwidth is sufficient. We have considered mirror sites also, and we have plans

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread Pete McNeil
At 03:39 AM 3/26/2004, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Since we're both up at this insane hour. Would you mind making a test? I've just shut down the Sprint line - so we're running through Savvis exclusively. If I'm right about the connectivity

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread Kirk Mitchell
At 07:42 AM 3/26/04 -0500, Russ Uhte (Lists) wrote: Pete, Just wanted to interject a couple observations. I'm connected to the Internet through a 15Mb frac ds/3 from ATT and a T1 from Sprint. I of course of no way of telling which pipe our automated downloads are coming from. However, I too

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread Pete McNeil
At 07:42 AM 3/26/2004, you wrote: Pete, Just wanted to interject a couple observations. I'm connected to the Internet through a 15Mb frac ds/3 from ATT and a T1 from Sprint. I of course of no way of telling which pipe our automated downloads are coming from. However, I too have noticed

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread Peer-to-Peer, LLC
] Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Spam storm? At 07:42 AM 3/26/2004, you wrote: Pete, Just wanted to interject a couple observations. I'm connected to the Internet through a 15Mb frac ds/3 from ATT and a T1 from Sprint. I

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread EI8HT LEGS Technical Support
, Vice President EI8HT LEGS Web Management Co., Inc. http://www.getafreewebsite.com 877-483-3393 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Stanford Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Spam storm? I

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-26 Thread Sheldon Koehler
It's starting to come together now. Wget on windows + errors on the Sprint line since the move = corrupted downloads for folks who end up routing through sprint along the way? Could be. We use Windows 2k, Wget and have our connection at our end from Sprint... Sheldon Sheldon Koehler,

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
: Sheldon Koehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Spam storm? Well it may not be a spam storm. Log file shows: nsx4b3eh 20040324200108 De90392330028271a.SMD 421 0 ERROR_BAD_MATRIX 71 0 0 2 5 nsx4b3eh 20040324200117

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Sheldon Koehler
This has been a bad week here! A big increase in total email volume, a huge increase in false positives as well as a huge increase in spam getting past our filters. Sheldon Sheldon Koehler, Owner/Partnerhttp://www.tenforward.com Ten Forward Communications 360-457-9023

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Computer House Support
, 2004 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [sniffer] Spam storm? This helps narrow things down. Specifically we know that the rulebase files are not corrupted on the server but during the download. That explains why I haven't been able to recreate a problem in the lab. I have a suspicion that wget may

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: Re: [sniffer] Spam storm? Big uptick of new and broken spam. Half way through the day and already at 445 new rules. We may be getting it under control though... (fingers crossed). _M At 06:02 PM 3/24/2004, you wrote: Am

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:43 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam storm? I see over a 1000 of these ERROR_BAD_MATRIX entries in my Sniffer log file today, as well. Is this due to the ruleset issue from earlier today? Bill -Original Message

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
, March 25, 2004 7:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Spam storm? This helps narrow things down. Specifically we know that the rulebase files are not corrupted on the server but during the download. That explains why I haven't been able to recreate a problem in the lab. I have a suspicion

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:43 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] Spam storm? I see over a 1000 of these ERROR_BAD_MATRIX entries in my Sniffer log file today, as well. Is this due to the ruleset issue from earlier today? Bill -Original Message- From: Sheldon

RE: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
At 06:51 PM 3/25/2004, you wrote: Looks like a bandwidth issue to me, since even doing the download manually, my connection stalled 5 times before I could complete a successful download. And the download speeds were atrocious, many times in bytes/second rather than even kb/second - and my

Re: [sniffer] Spam storm?

2004-03-25 Thread Pete McNeil
there will be no choice but to change the format in order to prevent this possibility. _M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sniffer] Spam storm