News Huge drop in spam as McColo closes

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/11/14/huge-drop-in-spam-as-mccolo-closes/1

Hosting company McColo was forcibly removed from the Internet by its upstream providers early this week, and up to 75 percent of spam world-wide went with it.

 

good news indeed, unfortunately my inbox is still full of rolex replica, cialis and viagra spam

 

These kind of people need to be shot -.-

 

Is it really so hard for them to check from time to time what's running on their servers?

 

props for killing the server...too bad it won't last

 

source: LA Times

 

I hope they get back up and running soon. My supply of Viagra, Cialis, and penis pumps is running a tad thin.



-monkey

 

What, you don't get the year-long supply offers? You need to sign up to better spam sites sheesh.

 

Spam gives me hope when I see it downloading it outlook it actually makes me think that someone might want to talk to me haha.

 

For some reason, all my year-long supplies only last a couple weeks.

Am I taking too much?

-monkey

 

My gmail spam box had over 900 messages in it. So, I hope that wasn't 75% less than what there would of been!

 

How much of a blithering moron do you have to be to order stuff from a spam e-mail nowadays, or to click on a link from an unknown sender? Sooner or later you think we'd reach the point where the only people stupid enough to do these things are the ones too stupid to own or operate a computer.

 

I love spam


send me more please

 

not having a home loan makes me impotent, according to leading spam-senders

 

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!!!

 

Spam? lol... not getting any, atleast not on my real email.
Seriously, all you need to fight spam are multiple emails, a real one you only give to close family and friends and then another one you dont care how much spam you get which you use everywhere else.

 

75% of all spam could be from one company? Jesus, that's actually quite impressive.

 

Whats wrong with spam?? I eat it all the time, and they even sell battered spam now in Somerfield. Win

 

It didn't really work like that. Spammers were using servers at McColo to command botnets, the actual spam wasn't originating at McColo at all. I suspect they knew exactly what was going on but decided to turn a blind eye to it. Unfortunately it means that as soon as the spammers find a new home it'll all return to business as usual, this is likely to be just a temporary blip

 

The internet breathes a little better now, but sadly not for long.