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#32637 22-Apr-2009 08:36

Anyone else getting a huge increase of this sort of spam in the past few days ?

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uplift your belove night event with relef of worthwhiled meds.

beneficial effect assured. free bonus for every order

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We seem to be getting a large amount of it in just the past 2 days and our filtering service isnt picking it up as spam either (contacting them today).

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#208473 22-Apr-2009 08:48

These are the standard spam - if you haven't seem before then your service was filtering then ;-)

Seriously though it's very seasonal. Some weeks I receive thousands of messages a day, some other weeks it goes through the roof.

I suspect with lots of botnets around we will see more and more of these coming (no pun intended).

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#208474 22-Apr-2009 08:52

This lot is def from a botnet, theres just some odd issues that have arisen with it coming into our system as well which has me a tad concerned....

I'll keep hassling the boss to yell at our filtering service provider and poke around the system some more...

Just what i want first thing in the morning.....

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#208478 22-Apr-2009 09:13

Filter provider had a "whoops" day.... so the spam should stop now thankfully.

However still one issue that remains only noticed due to the spam.... can someone who's an "expert" on Exchange drop me a PM and see if you know whats causing this little side issue ?

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#208486 22-Apr-2009 09:30

Using SMX.co.nz here, and simply not seeing spam at all. Its fantastic.

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#208511 22-Apr-2009 11:30

what we really need now is a spam filter for the social networks.. damn spam bots are the only things to "friend" me these days

this is where a signature goes

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#208522 22-Apr-2009 12:15

All sorted thanks guys :)

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#208526 22-Apr-2009 12:26

xpd: I'll keep hassling the boss to yell at our filtering service provider and poke around the system some more... Just what i want first thing in the morning.....

and who would your service provider be ?

I too have noticed an increase in SPAM and will be complaining to my ISP as their SPAM filter should pickup what is termed 'certainly spam' if they don't update their filter I'll log a complaint with DIA which should get their attention

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#208542 22-Apr-2009 13:24

Our filter provider had an actual outage, not out of date filters or anything.

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