Since this is my first blog post, I'll take the liberty of using some excellent content my colleague wrote recently and paste it in here. Marcus Solorio, our General Manager, realized he had seen much more spam and junk mail in his own daily computing life in the past few weeks. Then he heard the same thing from many of our clients. Our anti-spam solution, Postini, confirmed it all today. Here's the story, as written by Marcus to all of us internally.
Many of our clients have noted that it seems they have received more spam and viruses than they ever remember. They realized this from the notifications that Postini sent them when it "picked off the bad stuff". It seemed that there was so much stuff getting quarantined, that the notifications themselves began having a "spam effect" by filling up users mailboxes. We can turn those notifications off, and have done so at some clients' requests. Other clients would rather see/feel that the service is hard at work. Either way, there has been a noticable "up tick" in this spamming activity.
(Ed. Note : Postini described the situation in their most recent threat advisory : "Spam volumes set an all-time high in June", "July was the most active month for virus attacks in over two years", "...volume of attacks three times larger than any other time in last two years", " ... new attack still underway generating over half a billion virus-infected messages..." )
This increased problem is being caused by a growing number of botnets (networks of compromised PC systems around the world being used by spammers to try and overwhelm all the anti-spam solutions in place at this time). The problem is a living, breathing animal that just keeps getting bigger. The best solution is one that is not tied to a one-time purchase of hardware or software, but rather something that acts as a "moat around your castle". That moat needs to constantly get deeper and wider and we believe a gateway-level service such as Postini still offers the best protection.
If you have "felt" this increasing amount of junk/spam and possibly even the viruses that go along with them, you need to solve the problem !! Postini is the solution we offer and you can find out more by calling 888-LANLOGIC and speaking with Real People, that can provide Real Support.
I would be remiss, as your trusted IT advisor, if I did not make this point crystal clear. The bad guys are out there and they are putting in a concerted effort to hijack systems, grab personal information, etc.It reminds me of the theme song for the hit TV show, "Monk"..." It's a Jungle Out There!" :-)