How do you stop the recent floods

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

> In the good old days, about six months ago, spam came from
> open relays, Blackhole lists stopped most of it, and the
> combination of MailScanner and Spamassassin stopped almost
> all of the rest of it. Then came these spam-relaying virus
> ridden windows machines, and the torrent began. I am seeing
> hundreds of emails in a couple of minutes from the same user,
> same subject, all getting through. MailScanner does not stop
> them, and the blackhole lists are useless against them.
>
> Is there anything I can do?

SA Custom Rulesets and good AV

Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknight.ie/
Tel. +353 59 9137101

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