BlackIce is an awesome product that will do all mentioned here among other things. We use it to block the really heavy hitting static IP Addresses of known spammers that have static IP addresses. Many of these marketing firms own several class c blocks of IP addresses which will stop a lot of spam before it even gets written to your hard drive and make the work of your AV and spam filtering much less.
BlackIce will also defend your server against a host of other types of attacks that people do and you can block all ports other than the ones you really need open which further minimizes the chance of worms etc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cycle Rider Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Blackice >I've used BlackICE for years and didn't know about >these advanced >configuration options (but just tried what you >suggested and am delighted to >see that it works as advertised). I'm happy to have >some protection against >dictionary attacks, until Ipswitch adds something to >Imail. >Where did you find these parameters documented? I'd >love to know what else >is possible. Thanks. >Evan Evan, Getting the information on those parameters was nearly impossible. Tech support for blackice doesn't have a clue about these parameters or what they do. I ended up finding a guy who wrote the manuals for blackice and after several exchanges with him and a couple of weeks of additional detective work I put it all together and got it working. Blackice is a wonderful product. It even catches url spoofing in emails and blocks those from getting to imail as well. The real time info on who is probing your servers is also useful. For anyone else reading this, don't get the desktop version of blackice. It's not the same. The version you want is called "BlackICE Server Protection" and it's $299.95 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
