Sudden surge in spam

[Bill]

Hmm I have been gettin these for a while now but my system tags .pif files as
viruses.

On Star Date Tuesday 26 August 2003 06:46 pm, Hack Hawk sent this sub-space
message.

> 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