Did you get a bit more spam email this weekend than normal? I did at the office…and users complained a bit.

It was what I call a ‘zero-day spam attack’. It’s explained over in my “Security Dawg” blog here: http://www.securitydawg.com/2008/03/zero-day-spam-attack.html .

In the meantime, a bit of hand-holding for the users, who are probably spoiled by the overall effectiveness of the spam blocking at the office. We block about 500K (out of 550K) messages a day as spam. A few do get through, but overall we are quite effective at blocking spam.

Not as effective as Gmail, though. I hardly ever see spam in the “In” folder in my Gmail account. The above link explains my theory about that.