Spam volume way up with spam e-mails containing German words

[forhire]

Since Sunday we have seen a 150% incease in spam. Many of the messages are using German words as a dictionary attack to bypass our filters. We have updated SpamAssassin to to most current version and updated our rules. This has helped a lot but the spam keeps coming.

Most of the spam appears to be originating from virus infected machines that have become spam-bots.

[forhire]

I found this link tonight. It talks about the nature of the spam:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/ ... TE=DEFAULT