Spam firewall recommendations
Looking for a spam firewall. We previously used SonicWall but looking at other options. Can anyone recommend alternatives. looking for something hardware based for around 200 employees but scalable. looking to spend under $4k
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| June 9, 2009 7:35 PM
Firewalls, Spam, Spam Firewall
Looking for a spam firewall. We previously used SonicWall but looking at other options. Can anyone recommend alternatives. looking for something hardware based for around 200 employees but scalable. looking to spend under $4k
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| June 9, 2009 7:35 PM
Firewalls, Spam, Spam Firewall
Outlook blocks 1 address from my inbox– belonging to my boss!
My Outlook 2007 will not accept e-mails from only one address– that belonging to my boss. It doesn’t even shunt them to my junk e-mail folder; I only receive notice of them in my daily spam report. I can read the original message only if I access my e-mail account via webmail, where it shows [...]
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| July 15, 2009 1:45 PM
Outlook, Outlook 2007, Spam
My Outlook 2007 will not accept e-mails from only one address– that belonging to my boss. It doesn’t even shunt them to my junk e-mail folder; I only receive notice of them in my daily spam report. I can read the original message only if I access my e-mail account via webmail, where it shows [...]
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| July 15, 2009 1:45 PM
Outlook, Outlook 2007, Spam
Brightmail gateway compliance failure
PDF files are occasionally getting stripped from email with failure of “Executable file detected.” Does this always mean there are hidden .exe files? What would be some of the other reasons for this failure? Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question
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| April 17, 2009 7:21 PM
Brightmail, Email attachments, Email security, PDF, Spam
PDF files are occasionally getting stripped from email with failure of “Executable file detected.” Does this always mean there are hidden .exe files? What would be some of the other reasons for this failure? Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question
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| April 17, 2009 7:21 PM
Brightmail, Email attachments, Email security, PDF, Spam
Spam
I have a employee that when he trys to pull up his spam mail it freezes his hole computer why does this do that.
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| April 10, 2009 12:03 AM
Spam, Virus detection, Virus removal
I have a employee that when he trys to pull up his spam mail it freezes his hole computer why does this do that.
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| April 10, 2009 12:03 AM
Spam, Virus detection, Virus removal
Multiple email address, 1 iphone = multiple ip addresses?
If a person creates both yahoo and gmail email accounts and sends messages from an iphone, will the ip addresses match? I’m sure they are from the same person! Moderator Note: This is a revised repost. ————————————————————————— Strings below…X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTA7YT0xO0Q9MTtTQ0w9MA== X-Message-Status: n:0 X-SID-PRA: [intentionally blank] X-SID-Result: Pass X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jGBcAljEIdFx6L2Ei0lhDaYvUAA2hWS8VRUGibHmVnQcbmPXZkfWS0bcnLqG62VGDS6XMnYQBp8RSQ+CcQROTE5 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]) by bay0-mc1-f18.bay0.hotmail.com [...]
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| March 19, 2009 5:53 PM
Email Headers, Email security, Forensic analysis, IP address, iPhone, Spam
If a person creates both yahoo and gmail email accounts and sends messages from an iphone, will the ip addresses match? I’m sure they are from the same person! Moderator Note: This is a revised repost. ————————————————————————— Strings below…X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTA7YT0xO0Q9MTtTQ0w9MA== X-Message-Status: n:0 X-SID-PRA: [intentionally blank] X-SID-Result: Pass X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jGBcAljEIdFx6L2Ei0lhDaYvUAA2hWS8VRUGibHmVnQcbmPXZkfWS0bcnLqG62VGDS6XMnYQBp8RSQ+CcQROTE5 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]) by bay0-mc1-f18.bay0.hotmail.com [...]
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| March 19, 2009 5:53 PM
Email Headers, Email security, Forensic analysis, IP address, iPhone, Spam
Spam prevention on Exchange 2003
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 [...]
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| April 12, 2011 4:47 PM
Anti-spam, Anti-spam filters, Exchange 2003 spam prevention, Exchange spam filters, Spam, Spam filters, Spam prevention
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 [...]
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| April 12, 2011 4:47 PM
Anti-spam, Anti-spam filters, Exchange 2003 spam prevention, Exchange spam filters, Spam, Spam filters, Spam prevention
Exchange 2007 on server 2008
Spam is really bad on my exchange server 2007. They are behind a SPAM box but every now and again it fails. Is there a way to filter any of it out built into exchange itself?
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| February 12, 2009 9:38 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange spam filters, Spam, Windows Server 2008
Spam is really bad on my exchange server 2007. They are behind a SPAM box but every now and again it fails. Is there a way to filter any of it out built into exchange itself?
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| February 12, 2009 9:38 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange spam filters, Spam, Windows Server 2008
implementing POP3 in Outlook clients in exchange 2000
Im having a problem implementing POP3 in Outlook clients. My company has an Exchange Server 2000 and users need to use outlook outside the office. We are using POP3 to do that, but when the our users outside the office send mail using POP3, all the recipients receive it as SPAM. In all cases antispam [...]
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| February 2, 2009 2:56 PM
Anti-spam, Exchange 2000, Outlook, POP3, Spam
Im having a problem implementing POP3 in Outlook clients. My company has an Exchange Server 2000 and users need to use outlook outside the office. We are using POP3 to do that, but when the our users outside the office send mail using POP3, all the recipients receive it as SPAM. In all cases antispam [...]
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| February 2, 2009 2:56 PM
Anti-spam, Exchange 2000, Outlook, POP3, Spam
podmena traffica test – What is this email trying to do?
I’ve received two emails with a message body of “podmena traffica test” from two separate senders. What is this message trying to accomplish? Is it testing a spam application? I’ve had little luck researching it.
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| January 6, 2009 5:12 PM
Email, Email security management, Security, Spam, Spamming
I’ve received two emails with a message body of “podmena traffica test” from two separate senders. What is this message trying to accomplish? Is it testing a spam application? I’ve had little luck researching it.
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| January 6, 2009 5:12 PM
Email, Email security management, Security, Spam, Spamming
Spam prevention
These spams send email from user mail to him (spam himself) So the user receive message say Not I have kaspersky anti spam with last update and kasperky anti-viruses last update Delivery Failure Report was not delivered to: xxx@mydomainname.xx because: Host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 550 5.7.1 Message rejected (The message has been rejected by spam filtering [...]
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| February 13, 2009 7:58 AM
Anti-spam, Email security, Kaspersky, Spam, Spam Filter, Spam prevention
These spams send email from user mail to him (spam himself) So the user receive message say Not I have kaspersky anti spam with last update and kasperky anti-viruses last update Delivery Failure Report was not delivered to: xxx@mydomainname.xx because: Host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 550 5.7.1 Message rejected (The message has been rejected by spam filtering [...]
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| February 13, 2009 7:58 AM
Anti-spam, Email security, Kaspersky, Spam, Spam Filter, Spam prevention
IP address gets blacklisted using Exchange 2003
We have a small business server running exchange 2003. My IP address is keep getting blacklisted. When I research, I come to find out that something in my network is sending out spam but I can’t seem to figure out which machine is infected. I have ran several scans on all the machines but nothing [...]
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| December 3, 2008 4:07 PM
Blacklisted, Exchange 2003, IP address, SBS, Spam
We have a small business server running exchange 2003. My IP address is keep getting blacklisted. When I research, I come to find out that something in my network is sending out spam but I can’t seem to figure out which machine is infected. I have ran several scans on all the machines but nothing [...]
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| December 3, 2008 4:07 PM
Blacklisted, Exchange 2003, IP address, SBS, Spam
How can I check if our company name is “spammish”?
I would like to know if there is a way to find out whether or not our company name (domain name) that we use to send out e-mail could be identified as spam. Our domain contains the string “viar” followed bij 2 more letters. I can imagine spam filter software identifying or confusing this with [...]
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| November 10, 2008 9:38 AM
Delivery failure, Email, Non-Delivery Reports, Spam, Whitelist
I would like to know if there is a way to find out whether or not our company name (domain name) that we use to send out e-mail could be identified as spam. Our domain contains the string “viar” followed bij 2 more letters. I can imagine spam filter software identifying or confusing this with [...]
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| November 10, 2008 9:38 AM
Delivery failure, Email, Non-Delivery Reports, Spam, Whitelist
windows mobile device causing outlook spam
i had a windows mobile device and whenever i receive an email to my outlook, i always receive a spam email from myself and it has info in it with regards to “pocket pc”
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| October 28, 2008 5:30 AM
ActiveSync, carrier, omasync info, Outlook, Spam, Windows Mobile
i had a windows mobile device and whenever i receive an email to my outlook, i always receive a spam email from myself and it has info in it with regards to “pocket pc”
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| October 28, 2008 5:30 AM
ActiveSync, carrier, omasync info, Outlook, Spam, Windows Mobile
Junk mails showing from same exchange servers
Many of my users are receiving junk mails with fake mail Ids with smtp address of our exchange servers. Now everyone is thinking that our mail server is infected. But I know this can be done, but can someone tell me how to stop this?
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| September 10, 2008 6:38 PM
Exchange Server, SMTP, Spam
Many of my users are receiving junk mails with fake mail Ids with smtp address of our exchange servers. Now everyone is thinking that our mail server is infected. But I know this can be done, but can someone tell me how to stop this?
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| September 10, 2008 6:38 PM
Exchange Server, SMTP, Spam
Delivery Failures for mail I did not send – Spoofing or Trojan
I’m getting delivery failures for email I didn’t send. It’s probabaly someone spoofing my account, but could it be a trojan sending emails directly via SMTP? How can I tell? Is there a way to query the SMTP service for a list of sent emails?
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| January 26, 2012 5:05 PM
malware, SMTP Trace, SMTP transmission failure, Spam, Trojans
I’m getting delivery failures for email I didn’t send. It’s probabaly someone spoofing my account, but could it be a trojan sending emails directly via SMTP? How can I tell? Is there a way to query the SMTP service for a list of sent emails?
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| January 26, 2012 5:05 PM
malware, SMTP Trace, SMTP transmission failure, Spam, Trojans
suspicious mail in queue (Exhcange2003) help, can’t delete
There is a mail stuck in queue, but has no ID, no sender’s name, no recipient name. also expired date was for 20Aug2008. but still in queue. I can Freeze the queue, bit can’t delete. I mean the delete option is disabled. Help
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| August 25, 2008 6:41 AM
Exchange 2003, Spam
There is a mail stuck in queue, but has no ID, no sender’s name, no recipient name. also expired date was for 20Aug2008. but still in queue. I can Freeze the queue, bit can’t delete. I mean the delete option is disabled. Help
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| August 25, 2008 6:41 AM
Exchange 2003, Spam
How to find and remove bots from your network
We have noticed several users receiving undeliverable messages in their Inbox. Unfortunately, they did not send out these emails and considering that they are receiving quite a bit of these messages, it has led me to the conclusion we have been hit and infected with a bot. We are running Exchange 03 and PCs with [...]
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| August 6, 2008 2:47 PM
Bots, malware, Spam, Symantec, TrendMicro
We have noticed several users receiving undeliverable messages in their Inbox. Unfortunately, they did not send out these emails and considering that they are receiving quite a bit of these messages, it has led me to the conclusion we have been hit and infected with a bot. We are running Exchange 03 and PCs with [...]
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| August 6, 2008 2:47 PM
Bots, malware, Spam, Symantec, TrendMicro
Barracuda with SPAM
I am having problems with someone spoofing emails from my server for spam. What happens is that I start getting reject and bounce notices in the mqueue and it is bringing my server to it’s knees (I just upgraded to a faster server also). For example, yesterday in a matter of seconds the mqueue went [...]
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| July 24, 2008 6:58 PM
Barracuda, Sendmail, Spam
I am having problems with someone spoofing emails from my server for spam. What happens is that I start getting reject and bounce notices in the mqueue and it is bringing my server to it’s knees (I just upgraded to a faster server also). For example, yesterday in a matter of seconds the mqueue went [...]
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| July 24, 2008 6:58 PM
Barracuda, Sendmail, Spam
User that is getting alot of junk mail-How can I change her email address so that she does not get mail from her old email address?
A question submitted on SearchExchange.com I have a user that is getting alot of junk mail. Our mail filter is not very good at all. Currently, the user’s email address was the same as her login account, example sandy@domain.com. I added another smtp address and made it the primary and then deleted the previous email [...]
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| February 24, 2012 2:23 PM
Outlook, SMTP, Spam
A question submitted on SearchExchange.com I have a user that is getting alot of junk mail. Our mail filter is not very good at all. Currently, the user’s email address was the same as her login account, example sandy@domain.com. I added another smtp address and made it the primary and then deleted the previous email [...]
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| February 24, 2012 2:23 PM
Outlook, SMTP, Spam
SMTP queues sending spam. How can i find what PC is sending these messages
A question submitted on SearchExchange.com It appears a PC on our network has a virus. This morning I found a few hundred messages in the SMTP queues being sent from security@eppi-card.com and security@eppi-card.co.us to hundreds of domains. Is there a way to see which PC sent these messages? Maybe a log showing the IP address [...]
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| May 14, 2008 2:52 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange security, SMTP, Spam
A question submitted on SearchExchange.com It appears a PC on our network has a virus. This morning I found a few hundred messages in the SMTP queues being sent from security@eppi-card.com and security@eppi-card.co.us to hundreds of domains. Is there a way to see which PC sent these messages? Maybe a log showing the IP address [...]
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| May 14, 2008 2:52 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange security, SMTP, Spam
