Our company has prbly received about 400 in the past 2 days. Yeah, kind of high, but no different from your others like Code Red.
It should hopefully be all over soon. I think the nimrods who still don't have anti-virus software on their PC's should be hung by there ankles. People who have it running , but haven't upgraded the signatures, should be hung by something else ;) --Chris Santerre > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Help needed with spam deluge...is internet > email being > totally swamped? > > > Er...not quite on topic, but I need a sanity check bad...real bad. > > I try to keep my system clean. I run a firewall, spybot, and > a good/updated > virus scanner...and hey! SA on my linux server...although I > don't get much > if any spam on this account. My ISP account is another matter > entirely. > > I also subscribe to like 8 newsgroups. > > And I am dying from the flood of spam/email virii. > > After a hard nights' work, I went to bed and slept from like > 9am to noon. > Ahh I feel rested...yea right! > > I check my email and notice that over 100!!!! of this > fu$^%#$@ ms attachment > virus are in my deleted items folder. It is an equal amount > to my validly > received/sent email. I am also getting numerous bogus? bounce > messages for > emails I've never knowingly sent. > > Is everybody being swamped all to hell right now? Only ONE response is > enough for me/others to know this is the case...please let me > know. Based on > my personal email flood, I can only imagine the internet > email traffic has > like come to a crawl due to this extra garbage. > > I seem to have noticed the increased traffic for almost a > week now, gotten > worse in the past few days. Damn! > > > mike > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
