RE: filtering spam

[William Lefkovics]

Title: Message

Somebody here was telling us about filter software that could check images, at least rudimentarily (it's a word now.) -----Original Message----- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:20 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