Using Exchange to Manage SPAM

[bballmama]

Like everyone, I am being overwhelmed with SPAM. Do you have any rules set up using Exchange to manage this? The only thing I know of is to reject certain users and that's completely ineffective. In my environment if more than 10 people receive a copy of the same email, it is SPAM. Is there a way to deny these multiple instances?

Any ideas are gladly accepted. I want to use a 3rd party software, but my bosses are balking.

 

[Marcs41]

Mailessentials from

http://www.gfi.com/mes/

is a pretty good solution for that.

Marc
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[bballmama]

Thanks. I am thinking of implementing the freebie from Mailessentials. Before my bosses will $$$ for anything, I have to prove that a Microsoft answer does not exist.

 

[Marcs41]

Don't worry, there is no 100% SPAM free solution, so don't get your hopes up too high.
You could always let spam through for you boss, maybe then he will give you the needed $$$ ;-)

 

[bballmama]

That's exactly why he's finally thinking of doing something about it. It is affecting his mailbox.

I already know that there isn't a 100% effective management tool. And, in reality, I'm a little worried about blacklisting legitimate email. But, we've got to have some relief. I almost had users trained to protect their email identity, etc. And then we hired the boss' teenage son for the summer. See, he's "real smart" and "knows a lot about computers." Well, just because they have the high score on a lot of games doesn't mean they can do what we do. He's actually a good kid who could stand to learn a lot from us.

 

[glifex]

We use mail essentials here and it reduced the spam to about 98%. there are many good features on there. I definitely recommend it

 

[Marcs41]

I know the type, the boss's son is always a reaaly smart kid, don't you forget that ;-)

 

[forbsy]

Check out TrendMicro ScanMail eManager. It's what I use:

http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/email/smem/evaluate/overview.htm

 

[wacobd]

Another good product is Surf COntrol E-Mail filter (

http://www.surfcontrol.com).

We use that and our SPAM as gone way down. It also blokck with file types, adult content, and anything else you want to block on.

 

[cant]

i use a very good tool, its really effective and easy to manage, the name of the solution is IHATESPAM ,you can download an evaluation copy fron there site,

http://www.sunbelt-software.com

its really good.and the price just right.
good luck

 

[kmcferrin]

What I found worked well was a product called XWall.

http://www.dataenter.co.at/products/xwall.htm

It was priced reasonably and allows you to use a variety of filtering methods (querying blacklists, creating naughty word lists, blocking by attachment type, etc).

Trend Micro Scanmail also worked well when used on the mailbox stores themselves (we had a couple of SMTP gateways that were controlled by a different division that didn't implement filtering at the gateway). Honestly though, using multiple layers of filtering is the best way to make a big dent in the flood of spam. That, and being cautious about giving out email addresses.