RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Kelly :: Blacknight
IL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 1:33 PM > To: Paul Kelly :: Blacknight > Cc: Frank Bulk; 'Peter Serwe'; Skywing; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: McColo and SPAM > > What's very interesting to me is the very rhythmic peaks-and-valleys > you show... Se

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-06 Thread Neil
x27;Peter Serwe'; Skywing Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: McColo and SPAM We experienced exactly no decrease with the McColo shut down a few weeks back, even though we receive 2M+ messages per day. It's interesting that each service provider's spam populations are as different as

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-06 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Paul, I read Gregg Keizer's piece in CW where FireEye's Fengmin Gong is quoted as "We have registered a couple hundred domains," Gong said, "but we made the decision that we cannot afford to spend so much money to keep registering so many [domain] names." Now interposing on the Srizbi system

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We saw a dramatic decrease. Attached is our dnsbl mirror in .ie, it > mirrors spamhaus amoungst other things. > McColo was just an exercise in "managing" cyber cri

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Kelly :: Blacknight
nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: McColo and SPAM We experienced exactly no decrease with the McColo shut down a few weeks back, even though we receive 2M+ messages per day. It's interesting that each service provider's spam populations are as different as they are. Some experienced gigantic

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Frank Bulk
7;s not like we have just one domain. I know MessageLabs examines spam rates per industry type. Frank -Original Message- From: Peter Serwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:57 PM To: Skywing Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: McColo and SPAM Certainly, I have se

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Dambier
Seen behind my ISP (gmx.de), I get almost no spam. Looking into the spam folder I see some 10% of what I used to see. On the other other hand when they closed I got an alarm for my homepage. I got so many wordbooks on my ssh that they exceeded my traffic limit. I had to move my sshd to IPv6 only

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Raymond Corbin
Friday, December 05, 2008 4:03 PM To: Revolver Onslaught; nanog Subject: RE: McColo and SPAM We have not seen any decrease. In the last 24 hours we have seen 3.5 million messages blocked. -Mike -Original Message- From: Revolver Onslaught [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, Decem

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Mike Walter
We have not seen any decrease. In the last 24 hours we have seen 3.5 million messages blocked. -Mike -Original Message- From: Revolver Onslaught [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:14 PM To: nanog Subject: McColo and SPAM Hello, Since McColo closed, we noticed

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Serwe
nd didn't > originate spam directly, at least primarily, according to my understanding. > > - S > > -Original Message- > From: Peter Serwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 3:49 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: McColo and SPAM >

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Brian Keefer
On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Skywing wrote: McColo hosted the command and control servers for spam botnets and didn't originate spam directly, at least primarily, according to my understanding. - S That is correct. Srizbi and Rustok, primarily. -- bk

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Skywing
bject: Re: McColo and SPAM On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:14:08 +0100 > From: Revolver Onslaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: McColo and SPAM > To: nanog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID:

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Serwe
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:14:08 +0100 > From: Revolver Onslaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: McColo and SPAM > To: nanog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Dave Larter
Sorry, and we have the premium spam add-on too. -Original Message- From: Charles Wyble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:28 PM To: Dave Larter Cc: Revolver Onslaught; nanog Subject: Re: McColo and SPAM Is that an off the shelf tool or custom built?

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Dave Larter
, December 05, 2008 2:28 PM To: Dave Larter Cc: Revolver Onslaught; nanog Subject: Re: McColo and SPAM Is that an off the shelf tool or custom built?

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Dave Larter
05, 2008 2:14 PM > To: nanog > Subject: McColo and SPAM > > Hello, > > Since McColo closed, we noticed the spam was far more intensive than > before. > > However, it seems the amount of spam is similar than than before. &g

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Erik (Caneris)
: NANOG list Subject: Re: McColo and SPAM Jeff Shultz wrote >> > I've been getting an fair number of e-mails (up from zero) from > customers asking about spam they are getting with their e-mail address > being in the From: address. I know that this has always been > happening, I&#

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Charles Wyble
Is that an off the shelf tool or custom built?

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Charles Wyble
Jeff Shultz wrote I've been getting an fair number of e-mails (up from zero) from customers asking about spam they are getting with their e-mail address being in the From: address. I know that this has always been happening, I'm just wondering if it's been buried under the McColo stuff so th

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Revolver Onslaught
8 2:14 PM > To: nanog > Subject: McColo and SPAM > > Hello, > > Since McColo closed, we noticed the spam was far more intensive than > before. > > However, it seems the amount of spam is similar than than before. > > Do you feel the same ? > > Many thanks, > RO > > > > >

RE: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Dave Larter
It is still way down for me, see attached. Dave -Original Message- From: Revolver Onslaught [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:14 PM To: nanog Subject: McColo and SPAM Hello, Since McColo closed, we noticed the spam was far more intensive than before

Re: McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Jeff Shultz
Revolver Onslaught wrote: Hello, Since McColo closed, we noticed the spam was far more intensive than before. However, it seems the amount of spam is similar than than before. Do you feel the same ? Many thanks, RO I've been getting an fair number of e-mails (up from zero) from customers

McColo and SPAM

2008-12-05 Thread Revolver Onslaught
Hello, Since McColo closed, we noticed the spam was far more intensive than before. However, it seems the amount of spam is similar than than before. Do you feel the same ? Many thanks, RO