Tikkabik

Latest statistics:

I keep 10 days worth of spam in my Purgatory directory; that's maintained by SpamAssassin, which is a server side Bayesian filtering app that our e-mail server has installed.

Normally, it traps around 2000, 2200 spams in that time frame. Right now, there are more than 5800. That number is a result of my training SpamAssassin to treat any incoming e-mail that fits the basic MyDoom profile as spam.

The frightening thing is that they're still getting through in droves. My second line of defense is a utility installed on the Mac called SpamSieve. SpamSieve moves all the e-mail it recognizes as spam off to a separate Spam directory, and I've scripted my e-mail client to dump any contents of that directory that's older than 24 hours.

Usually it has about 500 messages in it. Right now the Spam folder has more than 1000.

And spams and server bouncebacks from forged e-mail addresses are *still* getting through.