Marc Perkel wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone is noticing an increase in the number of virus > infected computers sending spam? Last month my hostkarma blacklist had > about 700,000 IPs of infected computers. Today it's 1,200,000. I do have > some new customers who have a lot of spam. But just wondering where the > jump came from. > >
Well it probably wasn't the Alan Ralsky indictment, that only halved our reject volume for a one week period. After recovery (take-over of botnet) from that volume has been steadily increasing at about the same rate as prior months.
