Spammer back in full force?

jzmtl · Feb 10, 2009

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 · Feb 10, 2009

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 · Feb 10, 2009

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 · Feb 11, 2009

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

Patriot · Feb 13, 2009

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

american lockpicker · Feb 13, 2009

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

jzmtl · Feb 13, 2009

american lockpicker said:
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.

Spammer back in full force?

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