Sudden surge in spam

Hack Hawk hh at HACKHAWK.NET
Wed Aug 27 02:46:11 IST 2003


Do the subjects of that spam contain phrases like "Wicked Screensaver" or
"My Details"?  You're probably starting to receive emails from SoBig
infected systems.

All these emails were tagged as spam on my systems simply because .pif
attachments receive a +4 rating or something like that.  :)

At 06:38 PM 8/26/03, James Pifer wrote:
>Got no responses on this. Anyone else have an increase of spam today? I
>had 9 this morning get into my Inbox and 5 more by this evening, but
>some are getting caught.
>
>Something I should be looking at specifically?
>
>Thanks,
>James
>
>On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 06:36, James Pifer wrote:
> > The last few days I've been getting a bit of spam each day, like one
> > maybe two messages on my main account. Then this morning I had 9 spams
> > in my inbox.
> >
> > Everything appears to be working normally as far as I can tell. I
> > restarted MailScanner just in case. I'm running:
> > MailScanner 4.21-9
> > SpamAssassin 2.55-1
> > Pyzor 0.4.0
> > Razor 2.34
> > F-Prot
> > ClamAV
> >
> > Anyone else seeing this?
> > What's the best way to tell if everything is working, maillog?
> > How can I tell that Pyzor and Razor are being used correctly?
> >
> > I know it's at least partially working since I have spam forwarded to a
> > specific mailbox, and it has new messages in it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James



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