Often times many consumers get these e-mails from Nigeria, Russia, China and so on purporting a long drawn out story about a deceased king and so on. They can be caught by looking at their headers, but I've been told sometimes they use fake e-mail addresses. Is their a fool proof way to identify...
Hello, I would like to know the option(Compressing Old Files) which comes up during disk cleanup in win XP and win 2000. Is it good or bad? I mean, If I do the compression regularly will that effect my system/files in a long run? Is it same to that option (compress drive to save space) in disk...
Our company has just partnered with Symantec and being new to their products, I'm finding myself a bit overwhelmed. Are there any websites that offer mailing lists or online forums that can help with some of the issues I'm running into? This seems like an interesting concept for user-to-user...
I'm having trouble finding documentation on how to configure pop3 email for our remote sites to use. I have exchange 2000 running on 2000 domain. I also have gfi mail essentials 11 which has some sort of pop3 option in it. What all do I need to get pop3 set up so users can use outlook 2000 to check...
When my mail recipients try to resolve my IP address to my domain name, resolution fails. This is because the receiving email servers are seeing my local domain name and not my public domain name. Local is blueridgepro.local and public is blueridgepro.com. Local Ip address is 10.11.102.105 and...
A user was communicating with a contact(external email address). He was able to send an email to him but when he replied to his contact's email he got a delivery failure report. That report is pointing "554 Relay rejected for policy reasons" as the cause. Could you help me understand this delivery...
Hi All, I have scheduled an archiving process using the Scheduled Tasks in windows (2000 server). The task is running fine as per the schedule. But everyday I have to manually check whether it went fine or not. Is there any way by which I can send an email notification if the scheduled task fails...
I am running Oracle Collaboration Suite 9.2.0.4.0 on RHEL 2.1. My domain *@abc.com has been receiving lots of spam. The messages are usually from yahoo with randomly generated username's like abasdaczxcuz@yahoo.com or ffafaxoie@yahoo.com, etc. The IP's behind all of them are different. The problem...
Hi All, I am a IT Security Personnel and i look in to the Information security of my company.To protect the information of our company we have blocked all email sites from our Proxy server ..so that staff cant send our company data outside our office using public email sites like hotmail ,yahoo ,...
We use Merak mail server for emails. About 8 days ago, some email accounts on the server started receiving the same emails that go out more than 5 times. In other words, emails that go out from the server would get to the receipients repeatedly over and over again. I am not sure what causes this...
We have been running Exchange2000 IM for the past few months and it has been working as well as expected with any problems. then all of sudden we started gettting login errors: Exchange Instant Messaging Sign-In Faliure The email address does not match the username and password of the person...
Our sales department sends out many e-mails every day to current and prospective customers. These e-mails include a picture and a link to a demonstration video. Many customers are unable to click on the link, and can only access the video by copying and pasting the link into their browser. Does...
As the editor of SearchWindowsSecurity.com, I often speak with users about their Windows security responsibilities. One senior systems analyst in particular sent me an interesting note recently... To give you some background, he's in charge of configuring and administering desktop systems...
Can the "To:" field in email be spoofed by spammers? I've searched the web for spoofing information and everything I've found has reference to the "From:" field being spoofed but not the "To:" field. A user in my company keeps getting spam in his inbox and his "To:" field is that of another user in...
I have an Exchange 2003 server that functions fine. My problem is with the amount of spam that gets through the filter I have in place. We are already quarantining too much legit mail to tighten the filters any more. I have RDNS enabled, but don't understand the purpose because when the lookup...
i'm try to create a vpn from the internet to my "small buisness server 2003" that act as vpn server without any luck, if i try to connect to my server from the internal network it's work just fine, iv'e mapped the correct ports according to the microsoft article that say to forward port 1723 and 47...
Hi guys...u all know abt the problem with spam these days...I have just abt had it now, I have tried everything but there still a small percentage of spam coming through, I am having using an exchange server and McAfee as the virus guard, any sugestions on a good spam guard to go for?
Good day, we are using windows2000 smallbusiness server in our organisation with Exchange,Dns and Isa server configured. 1. I want to monitor the internet usage by the users. 2. I want to take a report on monthly or daily basis how much mb/gb utilised By Each User. Thanks for u'r reply in advance.
Good Day Everyone, I am a net admin in a W2K networked environment with approximately 50-60 users. We utilize exchange 5.5 for email and SC EF 4.7 for anti-spam and extra security. However, I have found several messages saying that I have sent an infected message to someone, and also, NDR's from...


