Will the Proofpoint box fix the incoming email delivery lags?
We hope that by effectively blocking viruses and spam, the system can perform normally. An ever-increasing volume of spam is being sent by ‘zombie computers’ i.e. infected computers belonging to unsuspecting end-users, and ‘botnets’, whole networks of these compromised computers [Wikipedia: botnet’]. This flood of spam has been straining Prairienet’s system resources to the point where it caused multiple instances of significant email delivery lags since the beginning of this year. With system resources no object, spammers can send to any number of non-existent addresses.
