How much spam/viruses do you get, and how do you filter it?

[LordRaiden]

Just curious how much mail everyone gets on a daily basis, how much is spam/viruses and what system you use to filter it. I recieve about 8000 emails on each of the 3 primary accounts I monitor (hostmaster, postmaster, abuse) as well as a total of about 200-300 per day total on my internal accounts for company business (admin, it-staff, rt-central, managers, and helpdesk plus my personal email addy) and aside from my daily logs, notices, and system logs, I still recieve a lot of email for a whole variety of things from both inside the company and customers.

If it wasn't for the wonders of Procmail, Spam Assassin, and Gateway Defender (virus scanning) I'd be burried in tons of useless mail. I posted a static page on my personal website (Spam results page for the "Hostmaster" account) showing the results of a spam report script I run daily at aproximately 3am as part of my daily log runs. Obviously it's behind the firewall here at work, so I put a static copy of the results (yeah, I know. It's ultra simple, but that's all it needs to be.) on my personal website for you to see just to give you an idea of how much spam I get, and this was a slow day!

What do you guys use for spam and virus filtering?

 

[her209]

Spam is my friend.

 

[LordRaiden]

Food spam = good.
Mail spam = bad.

Hmm, I'll take the first one.

 

[CZroe]

I get about 3,500 messages delivered to my PERSONAL inbox every month.

The only few legitimate emails I get are a few eBay and PayPal receipts (And I found a few from forums members tucked in there because of my last FT thread. USE PM's PEOPLE!).

I'm a posterchild for spam attacks and I blame it all on a job recruitment service my school forcefully imposed on me. They distributed my resume EVERYWHERE in '98-99, and possibly untill today. I'm sure addresses were getting farmed like crazy then. I laughed out load when I read in PC Magazine "Some users almost get more spam than legitimate email!"

 

[LordRaiden]

*bump*

 

Originally posted by: CZroe
I get about 3,500 messages delivered to my PERSONAL inbox every month.

The only few legitimate emails I get are a few eBay and PayPal receipts (And I found a few from forums members tucked in there because of my last FT thread. USE PM's PEOPLE!).

I'm a posterchild for spam attacks and I blame it all on a job recruitment service my school forcefully imposed on me. They distributed my resume EVERYWHERE in '98-99, and possibly untill today. I'm sure addresses were getting farmed like crazy then. I laughed out load when I read in PC Magazine "Some users almost get more spam than legitimate email!"

time to change your email perhaps?

I get none btw.