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Web Host Responsible for 75% of World's Spam Goes Offline

Posted 11/13/08 at 11:00:21 AM  by Paul Lilly

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We'd be remiss to claim that the tide is turning in the war against spam, but that doesn't stop us from getting excited at seeing the scumbags responsible suffer setbacks. Such was the case last month when the FTC said it had shut down one of the largest global spam networks allegedly responsible for sending billions of unsolicited emails. Now, less than one month later, a web hosting firm believed to be responsible for hosting roughly 75 percent of the world's spam has gone offline.

With servers housed in a 30-story office tower in downtown San Jose, California, hosting service McColo Corp. was shut down when two internet providers, Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric, cut off service after receiving reports about McColo's activities. Following the termination of service, security companies noticed an immediate drop in spam volumes, with email security firm IronPort claiming spam levels fell by about 66 percent for the 24 hour period ending Tuesday. Unfortunately, the drop isn't expected to last.

"We're seeing a slow recovery," said Nilesh Bhandari, product manager with IronPort. "We fully expect this to recover completely, and to go into the highest ever spam period during the upcoming holiday season."

Drats.

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TAGS: spam, email, website, junk mail
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avatarOh yea...

Submitted by winmaster on Sun, 11/16/2008 - 6:08pm

I thought I noticed a recent drop in spam. Too bad it will come back.

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avatarA plea to Russian hackers

Submitted by Cache on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 11:43am

Do the world a favor for a change and beat down McColo when they resurface (beacuse unfortunately, these asses always resurface).

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avatarDoes anybody how I can

Submitted by lunchbox73 on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 11:06am

Does anybody how I can increase the size of my penis? If only there was a product out there I could buy.

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avatarwhat's your email, i think i

Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 11:11am

what's your email, i think i know a few products, i'll forward them to you :P

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avatarI had to leave a Gmail

Submitted by Peanut Fox on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 10:01am

I had to leave a Gmail account by the wayside because of spam.  Good riddance!

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avatarSpam? Oh yeh...that stuff I

Submitted by horzo on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 9:57am

Spam? Oh yeh...that stuff I used to get before I started using decent email filters.

 

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avatarIts is about time

Submitted by Lord Omega on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 9:48am

some of those freaking emails were annoying. I hate the stupid sob stories that I get sometimes and asks for help with money and such. I just laugh at it XD

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