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Bot nets likely behind jump in spam
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-10-27

A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months has security analysts worried that bot nets are increasingly being used by spammers to stymie network defenses erected to curtail bulk e-mail.

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Bot nets likely behind jump in spam 2006-11-03
Doug Myhre
I've been collecting statistics from our mail server spam filter. I noticed the jump also, more than one. Saw a jump around 9/18/2006, another around 10/3/2006. Our server currently receives about 60000 messages per day. Of that about 11000 are valid, about 32000 are quarantined as spam (the res...

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