{"id":71,"date":"2008-11-14T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/wpblog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:44","slug":"significant-spam-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/significant-spam-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant Spam Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you getting less spam? A big spam host in CA was taken offline on Tuesday. One good source for the story is here http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/12\/AR2008111200658.html<\/a> , since Brian Krebs (the WP columnist) was one of guys responsible. The ‘co-location’ (a big web site hosting firm) looks to be responsible for up to 80% of the world’s spam, along with hosting other offensive sites (child pornography, etc). <\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, their connection to the Internet was cut off.<\/p>\n

As a result, the volume of spam being pumped out by all of those infected computers has gone down by 60% or more. At my office, we usually get about 800,000 messages a day; we block 92%+ as spam. Over the last 24 hours, that incoming volume has been reduced to about 250,000. Others are reporting the same reduction. (More details on Brian Kreb’s blog here: http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/securityfix\/2008\/11\/the_badness_that_was_mccolo.html<\/a><\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how long this reduction lasts.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, working on another web site project, some updating of existing sites, and the other usual stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you getting less spam? A big spam host in CA was taken offline on Tuesday. One good source for the story is here http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/12\/AR2008111200658.html<\/a> , since Brian Krebs (the WP columnist) was one of guys responsible. The ‘co-location’ (a big web site hosting firm) looks to be responsible for up to 80% of the world’s spam, along with hosting other offensive sites (child pornography, etc). <\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, their connection to the Internet was cut off.<\/p>\n

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