RE: filtering spam

[Zangara, Jim]

Title: Message

Check out Message Inspector from Elron SW.  It "reads" the email and scores it based on criteria you set.  So even if the word sex was in the body it could potentially flag it as spam.     Jim Zangara, MCSE+I IT Manager Special Projects Engineer Premiere Radio Networks A Division of Clear Channel Communications 15260 Ventura Blvd Suite 500 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Direct: (818) 461-8620 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] electrical system, which is good, because electricity can kill you. -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw" -----Original Message----- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:58 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: filtering spam Mail Essentials doesn't have that option, but I'll be looking for that on what I'm migrating to.  The only reason the user was ticked was because management sent out a memo stating that IT would be blocking those kinds of emails......mgmt didn't have a clue & of course didn't ask for my input on the wording of the memo :)  Don't ya just love mgmt? -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: filtering spam You can only do so much. The user needs to do their part too. If you are getting spam with no text, block the "no subject" or "no body" messages. I do that already   -----Original Message----- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: filtering spam   You are absolutely right Martin, the domains are forged, change frequently & the from email addresses are faked also.  Get some kind of content filtering software.  Currently I use Mail Essentials from GFI, but will be migrating to a Linux flavored software that is going to be much more configurable when I learn how to configure it :)   I have a Sherry Abercrombie Porn Filter list & you're absolutely right, it is entirely too disgusting to post publicly.  Just wait until someone at your company receives a porn email that has NO text in it at all that will trigger the filtering, it's just a bunch of pictures, ouch.  I took a lot of heat on that one until I got the person that received it to understand that our content filtering is only for text, not pictures.  -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 8:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: filtering spam You are wasting time. Most of the domains are forged and they change every day. I have recently started playing with content filtering. I pulled out a copy of Webshield SMTP and are blocking by keywords in the subject. It is working great. Ill bet we are blocking about 75% of our focus which is porn SPAM.   I am now working on the Martin Blackstone Porn Filter list, buts its too disgusting to post publicly. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Peck DNET [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: filtering spam We use a third party product but it's manual entry too.  If we get porn spam, then I will block the domain.  We're up to about 60 and that seems to have reduced it to very small trickle.  A lot of cz domains.   -sp -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: filtering spam Isn't it easier to block @aol.com at the IMS instead? -----Original Message----- From: Missy Koslosky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: filtering spam Wowza.  How about teaching your users all about the delete key instead?   And thinking about content filtering software.   And web sites?  You mean domain names, right? ----- Original Message ----- From: JFadigan To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:25 PM Subject: filtering spam   I am setting up filtering(to filter out spam) on my exchange server. I am at the moment putting in each web site manually, which I have several thousand. Is there any tool or feature that can do this for me. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm