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Internet Fraud, Schemes, Porn, Hackers and the like

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...

View Answer   |  Jan 20 2006  12:40 AM GMT
Hardware, Servers, Spam
asked by Intelops57

  0 pts.

Compressing Old Files

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...

View Answer   |  Jan 16 2006  6:37 AM GMT
Tech support, Administration, Hardware
asked by BinooDas1234

  10 pts.

Symantec Resources

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...

View Answer   |  Jan 9 2006  10:14 PM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Network security, Firewalls
asked by SMSMVP

  0 pts.

setting up pop3 email in exchange 2000

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...

View Answer   |  Dec 12 2005  4:38 PM GMT
Exchange security, Spam, Exchange
asked by jennylee

  0 pts.

DNS Domain Problem

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...

View Answer   |  Dec 9 2005  10:34 AM GMT
Spam, Exchange
asked by charlest

  0 pts.

554 Relay rejected for policy reasons

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...

View Answer   |  Nov 21 2005  4:30 AM GMT
Spam, Exchange
asked by chakazukin

  0 pts.

Email Notification If Scheduled Task In Windows Fails

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...

View Answer   |  Sep 23 2005  1:00 AM GMT
Security, Servers, Microsoft Windows
asked by bakash

  0 pts.

How to stop Spam???

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...

View Answer   |  Aug 29 2005  7:53 AM GMT
SpamAssassin, Spam
asked by mustafas

  0 pts.

FTP Sites

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 ,...

View Answer   |  Aug 23 2005  1:56 AM GMT
Microsoft Windows, Data analysis, McAfee
asked by Tarang

  0 pts.

Merak Mail Server Problem

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...

View Answer   |  Aug 19 2005  10:21 AM GMT
SpamAssassin, Spam, Exchange
asked by tranbadu

  0 pts.

Exchange2000 IM Problem

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...

View Answer   |  Jul 13 2005  7:26 AM GMT
Tech support, Help Desk, E-mail applications
asked by delebute2004

  0 pts.

Hyperlinks included in e-mail body are dead

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...

View Answer   |  Jun 7 2005  2:17 PM GMT
E-mail applications, Outlook, Spam
asked by whiskeyjar2005

  0 pts.

Is Windows security an afterthought?

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...

View Answer   |  Apr 19 2005  3:00 PM GMT
Security management, Administration, Disaster Recovery
asked by RobynLorusso23

  0 pts.

Email Spoofing?

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...

View Answer   |  Feb 2 2005  3:30 PM GMT
Spam, Exchange
asked by mickkelly

  0 pts.

Reverse DNS

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...

View Answer   |  Feb 2 2005  11:52 AM GMT
Administration, Exchange 2003, Spam
asked by rprattjr

  0 pts.

vpn through s-box firewall of checkpoint

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...

View Answer   |  Dec 25 2004  6:01 PM GMT
Security management, Help Desk, Administration
asked by drorbenyosef

  5 pts.

Anti-Spam solution

Which one is better in message gateway solution ? IronPort or barracuda ?

View Answer   |  Dec 17 2004  5:10 AM GMT
Spam
asked by Seventeenli

  0 pts.

Spam guards

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?

View Answer   |  Nov 30 2004  2:50 AM GMT
Security management, Security, IT architecture
asked by Adrian35

  0 pts.

Monitor Internet Bandwidth

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.

View Answer   |  Nov 29 2004  1:55 AM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Help Desk
asked by GiriPrasad

  0 pts.

Surfcontrol Email Filter 4.7

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...

View Answer   |  Nov 16 2004  3:17 PM GMT
Spam
asked by Nickolaii

  0 pts.

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