Google #4 On Spamhaus Spam Network List

I click on the link to the running list and there is no listing of Google, and Sprint and Verizon are 9 and 10 respectively... Posting date/time stamped, how could they be gone in 27 minutes?

Google currently has 18 entries - drops them off the top ten.

Let's hope it is because Google has gotten after the problem.

The Washington Post story probably had Google swing in to action and close some bad web sites to lessen the bad publicity.

Huh. Google isn't on the list anymore and #4 was replaced with gilat.net.

It's a conspiracy, man!

Hmm..
Alien conspiracists also use low-res blurry photography. Comeon Karl the least you could do was give a high res screenshot!

Edit: And really who cares who spams how much? We have declared that spam exists, lets go home now. All these spam lists is make it harder on the honest user. I mean majority of email servers drop email from residential IPs anyways, so whats the point? So we can point any laugh at different providers? And for those that say "but it helps stop spam from reaching my inbox!", they are fools. Show me an anti-spam system that works 100% guaranteed, drops spam but ALWAYS allows legit email to come in, (besides not receiving any emails, of course), no? Hey why don't we start a filtered national wireless internet? Anyone? Oh wait....

The article and image are from January 5th ... 5 days ago.

The spamhaus list changes daily. You should also look at the spam volume by domain at Senderbase, where Google, Sprint, and Verizon have been in the top 10 for months. What is interesting in contrasting Spamhaus and Senderbase is that the Spamhaus one looks at a small set of bad IPs, which obviously is easier to clean up. Senderbase looks at all of the IPs in a given network, including the IPs of subscribers rather than just official mail and other servers. As a result, the Senderbase numbers for ISPs often show how bad their outbound spam is, usually due to botnets and phishing sites.

For portals like Google and Yahoo and Hotmail, the issue is due to the cracking of their captcha systems that allow web sites and documents to be created in bulk for malicious use.

This seems to have finally made the light of day - but this is the sort of problem that can't be cleaned up in a day.

Google got too big and too liberal - I use Ask.com or Cuil.com.

Our domain gets more spam from Yahoo servers than Gmail servers. Even moreso starting mid-december.

And I'm getting Connection suggestions on Yahoo from spam email addresses saying I was in contact with said address!

If I can turn off that permanently, I would (if anyone knows, PM me please)

One of, if not the biggest spam mails I've ever used. Not to mention just plain crappy speed too, compared to other web mails. Have 3 Gmail accounts. 2 of them, I've NEVER given the address out to anyone and get 30 spams a day. The one account I do use, get about 15-20 also.

They're talking about spam being sent from Google's servers.

Please read the article.

Same thing here. I opened a gmail account for testing purposes only. Two weeks ago I logged into the gmail account and WHAM 20+ spam messages. How did the spammers get my email address? Who knows maybe an inside job.

I never gave my email address to anybody and I only sent one or two emails to my internal servers.

It's not an inside job. Spammers send their crap to every possible combination of email addresses. They just got lucky and found yours. And they keep track of what doesn't bounce.

I've used Gmail as my primary for nearly 3 years now. I get maybe 5-10 spam messages a year.

I can now regularly expect to get malicious links sent to me directly by Google when I use Google New Alerts. Malware distributors have figured out how to get nasty links sent directly by Google for innocent news searches. Google does a terrible job of filtering out the bad links.

They are getting better at adapting to the new tricks that the spammers are using.