Re: [sniffer] New Spam Storm

[Hosting Support]

While this has contributed to a recent doubling in incoming spam for us, it only accounts for part of the increase we've seen.  I have no idea what the rest of the cause in the recent doubling in spam volume is, but it's been going on for a week now.   We saw something similar last fall in mid October.  Spam volume for us tripled over the course of a day and slowly dwindled over the next two weeks to double previous levels.  It didn't seem to be directly tied to any particular virus outbreak, but could have been a delayed result of zombies.  It held there until the beginning of January, at which point it fell back to our previous levels...and as mentioned, last week it rose again. Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Schmidt To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:41 PM Subject: RE: [sniffer] New Spam Storm Yes, these messages were caused by Sunday's Sober.O and Sober.P remote update of previously infected PCs, causing them to send out millions of neo-nazi mail. The next update (likely a new spam-wave) is scheduled in 10 days. Some public mailboxes got as many as 50,000 emails in 48 hours to a single account.   SURBL will catch many of them for a while - big problem are returns to faked senders that are not as easily blocked. Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone:  +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax:    +1 201 934-9206   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Matuska Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 01:27 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: [sniffer] New Spam Storm Is anyone else seeing a huge amount of spam increase over the last couple days.  Most is being caught by sniffer but the overall number of messages especial foreign language spam messages seems to be very high.   Jim Matuska Jr. Computer Tech2, CCNA Nez Perce Tribe Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]