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Spam prevention on Exchange 2003
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Dear Mr. Moderator, I have been given the task and full responsibliity to Mange my Excahnge Server 2003, but serving as an Administrator for Less than a month i notice receiving spams mail at in my own name eg. from:jhenry@mydomain.com to:jhenry@mydomain.com.
I need your advise on how to resolve this issue. Most users have started report this issue to us.
Can you give me help knowledge?
ASKED: Feb 15 2009  4:47 PM GMT
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first thing first. do you have an anti-spam. If yes juste make sure your domain is not wite listed. if not bye or rent one and this will fixe your probleme.

Spamers are smart and will seek all sort of way to distribute their junk.

good lock

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"Spoofing" or imitating your email address is a very common spamming technique. Third-party spam blocking software or a third-party vendor who will do this for you are your best options. It depends on how much money you want to spend or how much time you want to devote someone's job to this. Controlling it yourself will take almost a full-time employee, outsourcing to a third-party vendor relieves you of the responsibility and some guarantee a 95% reduction of SPAM. It really depends on what your company decides is the best option.
~ technochic

You can find a comparison of different antispam products here: http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Server_Based_Antispam_Comparison.html
Askov

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Try implementing a mail proxy or spam filter in front of your exchange server. We use a Sophos ES4000 and it works great. It is blocking 40,000 spam and viruses every day. It is definitely something to consider.
Last Answered: Mar 20 2009  10:16 PM GMT by Mshen   23535 pts.
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Stp   30 pts.  |   Feb 19 2009  8:40AM GMT

If more administrators would use SPF this would not be an issue. I was not aware about SPF until very recent and I must admit that it is a great idea to use. I have just created an SPF record yesterday.

You can read more about SPF here:

And here

As for now you could invest in a Barracuda. It makes a great job fighting spam. It is not that expensive and it is easy to use.

You can also download a free antispam program and make your own antispam “box”.

Br
Steen

 

Stp   30 pts.  |   Feb 19 2009  8:48AM GMT

What a lousy site, why can’t I edit my answer. Something went wrong with the links and now my anser looks like crap - jesus. I try again.

If more administrators would use SPF this would not be an issue. I was not aware about SPF until very recent and I must admit that it is a great idea to use. I have just created an SPF record yesterday.

You can read more about SPF here:
 <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/" title="http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/senderid/wizard/" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/c…</a>

And here
 <a href="http://www.openspf.org/" title="http://www.openspf.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openspf.org/</a>

As for now you could invest in a Barracuda. It makes a great job fighting spam. It is not that expensive and it is easy to use.
 <a href="http://www.barracudanetworks.com" title="http://www.barracudanetworks.com" target="_blank">http://www.barracudanetworks.com</a>

You can also download a free antispam program and make your own antispam “box”.
 <a href="http://assp.sourceforge.net/" title="http://assp.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://assp.sourceforge.net/</a>

Hope this helps.

Br
Steen

 

Stp   30 pts.  |   Feb 19 2009  8:49AM GMT

NOOOO IT KEEPS ADDING CONTENT I DIDNT WROTE. I AM OUT OF THIS SITE.

Ask your question on a normal forum :-)

Br
Steen

 

Robert Stewart   1810 pts.  |   Mar 20 2009  2:44PM GMT

We use MX Logic and have excellent results after battling with two other filters in the past. Look them up on the web, they are a little pricey but well worth it. The difference between their quarantine file and the quarantine files delivered by previous third party filters our company used in the past is night and day difference. Previous filters would allow the user to release in some instances 100’s of spam messages a day, while MX logic does not even let them see that many questionable emails in their quarantine file. Makes you wonder were the other companies artificially raising our spam count or is MX Logic that much better. I hope this helps you out, search the web for spam filters you will find something you can work with.

 
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