Lots of Spam today

[JohnD]

Over the last couple of days I have received about 30 spam mails, with "subject" of a few random characters. the "to" and "bcc" lines seem to contain the same few addressees and i have set up some mail rules to delete them from the server (but it does not work on .bcc addresses). There does not appear to be any content in the mails.

Since the afternoon of 14/11 Norton Internet security has been putting almost all of them into the Antispam folder (It downloaded update files 14/11) but has not appended a comment saying why.

I have pasted an example below (email addresses replaced by xxxxx's)

Does anyone know what might be going on?




Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from aamtain12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35])
by mtain04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP
id <20071115210305.SMFB17469.mtain04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtain12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>;
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:03:05 +0000
Received: from cma-cgm.com ([86.157.62.1])
by aamtain12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP
id <20071115210304.HGYX10062.aamtain12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@cma-cgm.com>;
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:03:04 +0000
Sender: <[email protected]>
In-Reply-To: <a5f801c824c4$c4dbe863$38d6fc0f@tromv71>
X-Sender: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: "Lila D. Kenney" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Bcc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
From: "Lila D. Kenney" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:41:17 -0700
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-2"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-NAS-Language: Unknown
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 0.964862; #1: 0.0351378
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] o07mfj3ile7byglre
X-NAS-Classification: 1
X-NAS-MessageID: 39318
X-NAS-Validation: {B3C4647F-5DE3-402A-A3C3-17504CA7C90E}

 

[Ossy]

Something I'm now used to is that spam is something we all have to live with. I was working late the other night and had 2300 messages in 4 hours (I do have to check the 'catch all' account for our domain).

One of the company directors has recently been complaining about the spam he gets. I set the spam filter on the server higher, and spent £130 upgrading our AVG licenses to include the full security suite. Now he's complaining because the spam filters have blocked one email that they shouldn't. There is no way of winning the fight, but the spam filters can do a decent job if they're trained properly over time.

 

[breezer]

as you are with NTL have they not got a spam filter?

I am with BT, they have a spam filter, i just checked it, 450 spam in 3 weeks (it deletes them after a month if i dont check it)

 

[JohnD]

Not to my knowledge

 

[breezer]

clicky

it does have a pop up blocker, perhaps ther is a spam filter?

 

[JohnD]

it says near the bottom of the page "All Virgin Broadband customers also receive free email and spam protection, when using our email service."

Doesn't seem to be working very well.

I don't feel like paying 5p a minute to hang on the line to their Bombay Fobbing-Off Department.

I see it cost me £9.12 plus VAT in October to call them and report faults when my TV and Broadband were up and down over several days

 

[dave.m]

John,
Try putting the number or name details here:
http://saynoto0870.com/search.php
to see if there is a cheaper number to ring to contact them.
dave

 

[Bahco]

I see it cost me £9.12 plus VAT in October to call them and report faults when my TV and Broadband were up and down over several days

Yoou can call them on 150 or 151 from a cable phone.