Virus slow down?

DAve dave.list at PIXELHAMMER.COM
Fri Jan 6 20:19:42 GMT 2006


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DAve wrote:
> Lewis Bergman wrote:
> 
>> DAve wrote:
>>
>>> Is anyone else noticing a huge drop in viruses? Last night at 10pm 
>>> EST my virus captures dropped to an all time low. I generally catch 
>>> around 1100 per day, per server, and I have only caught 60 so far today.
>>>
>>> Everything else in MailScanner MRTG looks good, Clam and BD are up to 
>>> date, no problems in the logs. I don't suspect anything wrong on my 
>>> end, just a pleasent lack of viruses.
>>
>>
>> Yep, We were catching around 26,000 a day up till today. Today sitting 
>> at 80 so far.
> 
> 
> Don't misunderstand me, I am not complaining, but it is kinda spooky to 
> see MailScanner so quiet.
> 
> DAve

Spooky as in...  "I feel like one of those survivors who peers out from 
beneath the fire blanket after noise dies down". I know the levels of 
Viruses we saw in the last 18 months would have burned us if not for 
MailScanner.

Thanks Julian,

DAve

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