PDF spam anyone?

Post by **Snelvuur** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:55 pm

Is it just me or am i the only one getting +20 mails of pdf spam a day..

Post by **TANE** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:51 pm

At my work we got about 50.000 pdf spam messages per day what are detected as spam...in my mailbox i have also about 20 per day what are not detected.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:53 pm

well i fine tuned my spamasssasin, so i should be a bit saver now

i only have my own emails and i still get lots.. (http://spam.binkey.nl)

Post by **TANE** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:09 pm

At work we use the Cisco/Trendmicro software/hardware for spam control.
before the pdf spam about 98% of the spam was filtered.
counter is at the moment on more than 1.000.000 messages per week.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:24 pm

Getting alot of spam is easy, killing the most is harder.. and at least mine is free.. but i have adresses that start with "ej" @ something.nl which only holds 2 charachters. (which is attractive for spammers)

Post by **TANE** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:52 pm

For system monitoring we use e-mail and sms at work in the standby.
e-mail address that we use is so long and with lot of dot's that we never got any spam in the last 4 years.
I will not be happy when i receive a spam messages in the night on the standby phone.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:56 pm

the only reason why people get spam is because the email address was open and public. I always notice if i work at a new location, and i get a new email address, i never get spam. Basicly because i dont give out that email. But people adding you to there msn, or sending a mail with lots of cc's makes you a target. Good thing my msn email is not working, or can be easily turned of in total

Post by **TANE** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:08 am

there also many spammers that use e-mail generators and use the public available domain information for sending spam.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:09 am

Just got another 4 pdf's , its still not perfect, but i think i block a few at least. Dont want to set the trigger level any lower.

Post by **Willem4ever** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:19 am

Since I'm using my spam dropped to a few spams as week ... sofar no pfd spam has hit my mailbox.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:40 am

hmm for some odd reason dcc wasn't working for me. Made some adjustments hope it works now. (since i allready got 7 new pdf spam this morning)

Post by **Niknik** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:37 am

GMAIL!

Post by **Snelvuur** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:22 pm

Still got a few, but its less now. And gmail is on a server i dont control, there are tons of things nice out there but if i cant be the owner/maintainer i dont want it. I dont want to rely on someone else. (and i want outlook)

Post by **Niknik** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:12 pm

just for the record: well, you might not be able to "control" google, but you can access gmail via outlook.

(or use it as a forwarding account, and just use it as spam filter...)

Just suggestions, I understand you prefer to use your own servers and software - I have nothing against that.

Post by **Snelvuur** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:39 pm

And believe it or not, my simple php webmail is faster then gmail

but hey, i did win, it seems the pdf spam is gone now. Only had some weird brute force hackers on my mysql. Even if you have an account on mysql, whats the use of it? Cant hack into the box then though.