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Maybe a lot of people bought new PCs for the holiday season, crippling the botnets that used to rely on older (less secure) versions of Windows?
by kijinbear 16y ago
Maybe a lot of people bought new PCs for the holiday season, crippling the botnets that used to rely on older (less secure) versions of Windows?
- plaes 16y ago...and tech-savvy people visiting their relatives forced to do some tech support.
- Waywocket 16y agoIt's not as sudden as that. For reference, I admin a mail server for a small charitable organisation, and our mail graph for the last year looks like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4957647/mailstats/mail.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4957647/mailstats/mail.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4957647/mailstats/rejected.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4957647/mailstats/rejected.png Where the grey is spam filtered by spamassassin and the red is obviously spam rejected outright due to an invalid recipient or an impossible sender or whatever. The previous year's trend looked sort of similar - I think 2007 or 2008 was the peak in terms of spam we receive and it's been declining on average since then.
- eru 16y agoThanks for showing some actual data.
- mkramlich 16y agoI guess that contributed plus a spike in people starting to use iPads and smart devices and Macs and Kindles etc and either abandoning or just not having their Windows desktops turned on as much. Botnet agents can't send spam when turned off or offline.