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Spam Stikes Back: Botnets Return
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-11-28 15:43:48 434
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Spam Strikes Back: McColo Corp was knocked out for a brief moment weeks ago, but apparently the blow wasn’t enough to keep its evil minions down for the count.
By By Kevin Parrish @ Tom's Guide
MessageLabs, a subsidiary of Symantec, is reporting that levels of chunky spam are on the rise once again despite internet service providers pulling the feed to one of the largest spamming accomplices ever, McColo Corp. In fact, the volume has risen 37 percent since Sunday, just a few short weeks after the company was shut down (and coincidentally just in time for Black Friday and Christmas bonuses). Spam volumes originally dropped 80 percent when McColo was taken offline on November 11, but slowly began to rise against shortly thereafter.
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