On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:44, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I've been asked to help out someone who is slightly vurnerable and is > receiving large volumes of spam. She is finding the content or titles a bit > upsetting. Not being computer literate, she's probably unaware that it's > "nothing personal" and that she is a random target along with hundreds of > thousands of others. > > I plan to have a chat with her and look at her setup and see if there's > anything that I can do. Apart from some words of re-assurance I'd like to > check for a few other things while I'm there; virus scan / spyware scan for > example. However, on the spam issue all I know about is Linux and > Spamassassin so I need to do some homeowork on what tools are available for > the Microsoft platform. Could anyone provide me with any pointers or sites > that might get me started?
If she's not locked into Outlook by corporate policy or calendaring/groupware features, she could use Thunderbird (mozilla.org) which has bayes filtering built-in on the client side. That should filter out a lot of the junk all by itself. The other relatively simple thing to do would be to route her mail through your server. (I'm assuming your server runs SA and filters out a good percentage of spam.) Set her domain's MX to your server, and on your server set a static route to her current server. Then you can both stay on your platforms of choice. Running SA on Windows would be a can of worms I wouldn't want to open up, considering she's a non-computer-literate person and you know Linux best. Good luck. - Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrator, tgpsolutions http://www.tgpsolutions.com
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