SpamRats Statistical Information
Spam Rats is fortunate to have a large data collection grid of specialised mail servers which are used to feed data into the various Spam Rats databases, as well as our team of specialised Spam Auditors. This isn't meant to catch every spammer, trojans, or bots out there, it primarily registers the most aggressive and active ones. If your server happens to leak only a couple of Spam, it is unlikely that you will find your IP listed, however if your IP is spewing spam, attacking many locations at once, or other specialised patterns that identify abusive behaviours, (or in some cases, you simply have no controls preventing outbound Spam), then you might get on the lists.
However, it is helpful to see exactly how effective our data collection grids are, how effective the lists are in the real world, and just how bad the problem of trojans, bots, and infected PC's can be.
For more information, media interest, technical interest, or for partnering with our technologies, please use the contact page, and hopefully this real time information, may provide interesting information for you.
Data Collection Performance
Last Update: March 09 2010 16:20:01
NOTE: April 16th, 2008 The large jump in IP's was expected, as we added a new analysis tool to previously gathered data.
Effectiveness Barometer
Coming Soon! Real Time Blocking Statistics. However, in the mean time, as of Jun 15, 2008 an indicator of the effectiveness can be seen by looking at what a typical ISP of less than 5000 users shows that RATS-DYNA is blocking 30% and RATS-NOPTR is blocking 28%, and at an ISP of +100,000 users RATS-DYNA is blocking 17% and 25% respectively. Generally, the more domains you host, the more effective these lists are. Larger ISP's have more targeted email marketers, rather than spammers, and MIPSpace may be more effective (18%) for this.
Remember, 40% of connections from the worst offenders actually means stopping a lot more spam, as those attackers tend to send a lot more spam per connection.
IP reputation really helps. It is simple math. There are 4,162,314,256 IP Addresses (IPv4) possible, of which 1,213,933,310 are BOGONS. (Not used for public IP's). There are even less actually assigned for use, and when you subtract those that are reserved for purposes that don't involve the possibility of sending email, we just have to watch less than 2 billion IP Addresses. And with computers, that isn't that hard.:)