hefty spam decline since august

[mutz]

BBC
seems to be getting better.

 

[mxnerd]

I don't see that, at least for my own experience.

I moved a Google Apps Email account for my friend's company (5 users) back to Exchange 2003. I used the free ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) to filter the spam, and found that the mail server got about 10 spam attacks every minute.

The IP addresses came from different counties all over the world, Russia, China, Korea, Brazil, Germany, Armania, Taiwan, Japan, and U.S. of course, etc..., you name it.

I really wonder whether an infected server in the same Verizon subnet are sending out those spams, or how these SpamBot find your server.

I do know one of the previous employees keep registering her name all over the net hoping to get some coupons/good deals , maybe that's why.

Goolge actually did a very good job filtering spams, my friend's company just want the Exchange experience back.

 

[mutz]

you can try alerting they're abuse mails or network administrators to tackle it though it would take them attended one by one, it happens to work sometimes.
the other way is trying to contact this employee and ask him/her to delete these entries,
it probably is ain't easy to clear every single record,
the e-mail here isn't recorded anywhere and still happens to get some,
it could be they are scanning pages or hacking into sites to get e-mail lists or so,
it is really hard keeping your inbox entirely clean.

 

[mxnerd]

Well, that particular employee has been fired.

Yeah, those spams that look to break in usually use random email addresses, but I think most SpamBot also try to use some common email address name too, like info, cust, acct, service, etc. And it happens that my friend's company use those commonly used names.

ASSP does block most of the spams, but to get better filtering result, it definitely need some time to train itself and some fine tuning.

 

[mutz]

i'm wondering why MS aren't using something like a filtering server which takes messages u flag as spam and sending it back to the server to record it,
anyway it comes strait to the garbage folder so why wouldn't an outside server do all the dirty job then MS guys can track the main spammers and do something about it,
network managers would probably listen to them much more then they can with hundreds of users spamming them each day with complains.