In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:15:41 +0000
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> What's with all this spam?
>
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> | At North Shore-LIJ Heath System, a network of hospitals based in
> | Great Neck, N.Y., with about 12,000 e-mail users, there's been an
> | 80% increase in spam received in the last 45 days, says system
> | architect Steve Young, and most of it is image spam.
> |
> | "We got slammed with a 50% increase [in spam] in one day. For the
> | past year-and-a-half none of my users ever got a spam message; in
> | that first 48 hours [of image-spam blasts] there were 500 calls
> | and over 1,000 complaints from users," he says.
> `----
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> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110806-image-spam.html
>
> Help the world get rid of SPAM. Reduce the number of mail
> servers and mailbox clutter. Upgrade to Linux.
I'll admit I like the idea. While I get lots of spam I know
I'm sending out none of it. :-)
>
> Recently:
>
> Increased spam levels connected with aggressive botnet activities
>
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> | MessageLabs announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence
> | Report for October 2006. In this report, MessageLabs highlights the
> | sudden increase in spam levels as spammers gear up to the holiday
> | season, attributed to a huge rise in recent botnet activities and the
> | latest outbreak of the Warezov virus, responsible for dropping an
> | aggressive spam Trojan.
> `----
>
> http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=4359
Gad. Are there no original worms anymore? :-P
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