Spammer back in full force?

[jzmtl]

I remember a while ago, when some ISP's pulled the plug on several major spam producers, I actually did get less spam in my email, only a few per day. But now seems they are back in full force, I'm getting over 20 a day easily.

Anybody noticed the increased spam lately?

 

[mechBgon]

I think you're referring to the shutdown of rogue webhosting outfit McColo (article about it).

Most of the Spam in the world is sent by infected computers that are "zombies" in a "botnet," commanded by bad guys who can rent their botnet out for various purposes, including Spamming. The bad guys had a lot of their botnet command-&-control servers hosted at McColo, so the shutdown helped for a while, but I've seen some recent stats that showed it was only a temporary setback.

 

[Black Rose]

I'm only getting a couple a day still.

I used to get 50 to 80 a day before that webhosting site was shut down.

 

[Kiessling]

Only a handful per day now as opposed to over 100 last year.

 

[Patriot]

I'm only getting one a day on average. Perhaps my ISP is filtering some of it out though.

 

[american lockpicker]

I used to get a lot of span until I started unsubscribing from them now I get 1-3 a day.

 

[jzmtl]

I used to get a lot of span until I started unsubscribing from them now I get 1-3 a day.

Really that works? I've always heard that if you unsubscribe it actually shows your email address is live, thus putting it on the premium list, not off the list.