The blog about spam

Our support will be closed during the holidays and re-opens again January 11 2010. We will answer your e-mails as usual during the working days, but the phone support will be closed.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

As we earlier reported virus levels have been rather higher than normal lately, but this now seem to have changed. We now see that virus level is back below 1 % which is more normal. Furthermore the dominating viruses aren’t actually viruses but phishing attempts. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you experienced that spam messages are sent from your address? I can guarantee you that you’re not alone. This happens to all of us. The reason is that the protocol used for sending e-mail, SMTP, is a fairly simple protocol designed in the very beginning of the internet’s history. Anyone may basically put any e-mail address in the From field when sending a message. Spammers use this a lot to make it appear like a friend or a colleague is sending you an important message. Read the rest of this entry »

The last 5-6 weeks we have seen an increase of viruses blocked by the SpamDrain filter. The virus proportion has raised to levels around 2 – 3 %. This doesn’t sound much but compare this 0.2 -1 % for previous weeks. Two per cent corresponds to 15,000 viruses per week for our customers only. Since the spam proportion is around 80 % it means that for every tenth valid message there is a virus e-mail. Imagine the damage all these viruses could have made. Read the rest of this entry »

Lately we’ve been working on a new front page along with new pages describing the SpamDrain service. Our goal is to give you as a visitor a quick overview of the service and its benefits. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently we have worked a lot with speeding up the Archive and Report pages on the web site. These pages should now be a lot more responsive than they used to be.

We’ve just moved the SpamDrain blog to a new server. The new home is at http://blog.spamdrain.net.

SpamDrain now has a Fan-site on Facebook:

Feel free to become a fan to be updated, join the discussions or just tell us how much you love SpamDrain .

SpamDrain now has a Fan-site on Facebook:

Feel free to become a fan to be updated, join the discussions or just tell us how much you love SpamDrain .

We have added the possibility for SpamDrain users to turn off the DNS blacklist filter which currently blocks messages sent from known spam servers. Why would you want to do that, you might wonder? (…or you just wonder What is DNS blacklisting ). Read the rest of this entry »