Spam

[itsj]

I have VM 2mb broadband with the VM spam filter set to the highest (most likely to catch) of the 3 levels. This has worked very well for the last couple of months with no spam received. However, things have changed in the past week and I am now reciving some very offensive spam up to half a dozen times a day. I always report it via spamcop and they seem to be reporting it back to Italian/South American/Chinese ISPs.

Is it just me or are others also finding the VM spam filter ineffective of late.

[Chris W]

It's not just the VM spam filter- I've noticed the same with VM, Gmail and Hotmail... looks like the spammers are getting cleverer.

I seem to be getting an increase in "random" spam as well- eg-

Nodelist text buttons flash, arent, upnodelist. Travels deals, section where timely, review! Nice subsystem siemens nokia avaya telefonos, de, mexico alcatel. Jangl yahoo submit site home help goal.

uh huh.. thanks for that "Hermunt Marker"

[Druchii]

I've seena huge increase in spam recently as well

I get about half a dozen spam email per day that fail the Gmail filter which has already filtered out a high proportion of the spam.I think it's just impossible to get a absolute fail safe filter without losing genuine emails.