[sniffer] Re: Increase in spam

[Matt]

I have a moderately large number of domains and accounts that I protect, and in the past, whenever someone indicated an increase in spam, my system was always at normal levels and I chalked it up to some change on the end of the one reporting the issue (such as a nobody alias or being baptized by a brute force /dictionary spam attack).  Over the last two weeks though, my connection traffic to my gateway is up about 90%, and what gets through my gateway to Declude has risen around 20%, yet there has been no noticeable increase in good E-mail.  I'm guessing that one of the zombie spammers has become more aggressive, at least with tarpitting avoidance and retries, while clearly there are a lot of new static spam blocks (Scott Richter for instance is back with a vengeance). In relation to yesterday's reported leakage, I am guessing that Sniffer isn't the only protection, and that RBL's are a part of that system.  If so, the Network Solutions issues yesterday did cause issues with resolving off of blacklists as it has been reported, and that could explain the extra leakage. Matt Darin Cox wrote: We saw a sudden ~50% increase on July 16th, but only fluctuations and moderate growth since then. On weekdays we're now at 80% spam, 95% or better on weekends. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Message Sniffer Community" <sniffer@sortmonster.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:23 AM Subject: [sniffer] Re: Increase in spam Hello K, Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 8:52:17 AM, you wrote: I've been seeing a massive increase in spam over the last 2 days getting through with minimal scores. Could this be due to the drawback of the filter involved with false positives, or something else? It's hard to pin down, but not likely to be the pulled rule. We have seen a relative increase in new spam campaigns over the past 2 days preceded by a lull. That may be what you're noticing. I've attached a graph to illustrate. _M