Spam Victory

[TinCow]

There seems to have been a major victory in the spam war recently:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7725492.stm

"The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail.

Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper.

Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels drop by 70% since McColo was taken offline on 11 November."

I was intrigued by this, so I checked the spam filter on my main email account. The system has been wonky for a while and doesn't report good emails properly, but the spam count has always remained accurate. Take a look at this results and note the dropoff at 11/11:

[Gregoshi]

Nobody expects the Spammish Inquisition...

[FactionHeir]

My spam went from 500+ daily to 140, which is nice. I think it'll go back up soonish tho unless the people behind it are brought to justice.

Interestingly enough, starting from the 11th, my other forum is being hit hourly by spam bots.

[TevashSzat]

I don't think the respite will be too long because most spammers, I would presume, would have backup hosts ready just in case something like this happened. I think the other ISPs should take note and repeat this in the future for any other ISP who harbors all of these spammers.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Since this has happened, all my spam has ceased. I still get some in my spam inbox, but the actual spam that gets through the filter has dropped from 6+ per day to 0.

[caravel]

Same here. All of the spam that was flooding daily into my old hotmail account has stopped. It won't be long before they get new hosting sorted out however...

[PBI]

But just think - every minute the spammers are offline is a minute they are not making any money.

That thought gives me a certain sense of vindictive pleasure.

[TinCow]

Almost a week has gone by, and the spam levels remain low. I expected the spammers to find a new host a lot faster than this. Here's my latest spam chart:



So, any guesses how long this will last?

[Whacker]

Clearly the rapture is upon us. These glorious days shall last forever and ever. Our pipes shall never be clogged and our inboxen free of Viagra and enlargement ads!

Seriously though I'm not sure. I would have expected these guys to be back up and in business already, esp. if there's good money to be had. Most intriguing.

[drone]

Not going to last for much longer. They got temporary access and downloaded botnet command and control to servers in Russia.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11..._resurrection/

Spam to commence shortly.

[Csargo]

I stopped getting spam emails for a couple of days, but now they're back with a vengeance.

[Mithrandir]

Nobody expects the Spammish Inquisition...

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[TinCow]

I stopped getting spam emails for a couple of days, but now they're back with a vengeance.

I remain at (historically) low levels:

[Caius]

Spammers are suffering with the global crysis. When I see those graps,I change SPAM for Dow Jones and those should be the same.

[TinCow]

Nearly two weeks on now and my daily spam levels are still about 1/3 to 1/2 of what they were beforehand.