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Any other Freeola users noticed an increase in SPAM recently?
We've just had a pretty good run of low levels of SPAM, but for the large range of domain/emails I look after I can see a recent increase.
If there's anything Freeola can check/update it would be appreciated.
Am I right in thinking SPAM email samples sent as attachments via Outlook are still no use to you?
Thanks.
[s]Hmmm...[/s]
> ...as it was me who recommended Freeola and set up their
> connection and mail address they seem a little peeved that I
> can't sort it out ? :S
I get that a lot :¬)
[s]Hmmm...[/s]
EDIT : False alarm,just had the Med Center one for the 4th time :(
Just to show they can be filtered - I pick up my mail via GMail 'mail fetcher' as well as via Outlook and that junks 100% of them!
That's why I mentioned "If there's anything Freeola can check/update it would be appreciated." when I started this post.
Once in the past I think Freeola mentioned spam was bad as 'something had gone offline/failed...'.
[s]Hmmm...[/s]
> EDIT : False alarm,just had the Med Center one for the 4th time
> :(
Still popping in....seem to be popular at the moment with some sort of 'foreign real estate scam' and oh yes, me and more Russian brides who are all totally respectable...:-)
Just had another come through with a trojan attached.It's the second one I've had this week.
Deleted it as didn't want to forward it on.
Details below :
__________ ESET Smart Security warning, version of virus signature database 4953 (20100317) __________
Warning, ESET Smart Security found the following threats in the message:
Facebook_document_674.zip - Win32/Oficla.EU trojan - deleted
Facebook_document_674.zip > ZIP > Facebook_document_674.exe - Win32/Oficla.EU trojan - was a part of the deleted object
Not good :(
Any updates from Freeola ?,are this problems being looked at ?.
Are we wasting our time sending the samples in ?.
Should I send any of the infected mails in to Freeola,should I receive anymore ? (deleted the ones I have received so far).
> Some good questions!...
I've seen a view dodgy (as in malicious as they are all dodgy!) attachments - the one's you mention and also a 'UPS Parcel' email with attached ZIP file...
I know another Freeola domain/adsl customer that also received that and unfortunately opened the attachment :¬(
[s]Hmmm...[/s]
> Take it I'm the only who's had trojan's then ?.
Nope, we've had them on test accounts too.
>
> Any updates from Freeola ?,are this problems being looked at ?.
>
This is being looked at. The engineers responsible for these servers are looking into this.
> Are we wasting our time sending the samples in ?.
>
I don't think so. We forward the Spam to the team responsible for the running of the mail servers, so any examples should be helpful for them.
> Should I send any of the infected mails in to Freeola,should I
> receive anymore ? (deleted the ones I have received so far).
By all means send a couple of the infected e-mails.
Overall the amount of spam coming into the server has increased noticeably and I'm not sure why this would be. I know graylisting is being looked at as we suspect this isn't working as well as it should be and is usual a good tool for stopping spam.