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Want to block spam before it ever reaches your Exchange servers and Microsoft Outlook email clients? Find the antispam software tools, tips and tutorials you need here. Exchange Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) add-ons and custom configuration advice, help with Edge Transport servers, blacklist guidance, and a plethora of freeware spam-filtering tools will be at your fingertips.
IN THIS TOPIC:  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (112) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (21) , WHITE PAPERS , WEBCASTS (5) , DOWNLOADS (3) , BEST WEB LINKS (15) , DEFINITIONS (14) , NEWS (37)

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Tutorial: How to protect Exchange Server from spam blacklists
TUTORIAL - Learn how to keep your Exchange Server off spam blacklists, and how to get off them if you've already been unfairly singled out.
Exchange Intelligent Message Filter
CRASH COURSE - Are you maximizing Exchange IMF's antispam and antiphishing capabilities? Learn how to display SCL rankings in Outlook, enable IMF on authenticated SMTP connections and more.

  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 112
ANTISPAM SOFTWARE AND SPAM FILTERING EXPERTS
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Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server Event ID error 6009
20 Oct 2008
EXPERT ANSWER - Get advice on troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server Event ID error 6009, an Exchange message transport error involving the SMTP categorizer.
Exchange email sent to a domain using SPF authentication is returned
12 Sep 2008
EXPERT ANSWER - Learn how to properly set up an Exchange Server environment to route SMTP traffic through an external spam and virus filter to avoid email routing snafus.
Configure SMTP relay restrictions in Exchange Server 2003 to stop spam
12 Sep 2008
EXPERT ANSWER - Find out how to configure SMTP relay restrictions in Exchange Server 2003 to stop your Exchange server from sending massive amounts of spam email.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 21
Microsoft Exchange Server security dos and don'ts
SearchExchange.com | 30 Oct 2008
CHECKLIST - Securing Exchange Server against spam and viruses is a challenge. Follow these security practices to protect Exchange from various email security threats.
Secure Edge Transport servers using the Security Configuration Wizard
SearchExchange.com | 17 Apr 2008
TUTORIAL - Find out how to extend Windows Server 2003's Security Configuration Wizard in Exchange 2007 to protect Edge Transport servers from email viruses and spam.
The six-layered secret of effective Exchange Server email filtering
SearchExchange.com | 21 Feb 2008
TUTORIAL - Discover the six key message-filtering layers that best block spam and viruses and keep unwanted email out of your Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 system.
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  WHITE PAPERS
Websense Messaging Security Solutions
Published by: Websense, Inc. | 19 Nov 2008
WHITE PAPER - Websense Email Security is a software-based gateway solution that incorporates multiple layers of real-time intelligence, providing protection against complex inbound and outbound threats.
The Essential Guide to Protecting Essential Information
Published by: Websense, Inc. | 19 Nov 2008
PRODUCT LITERATURE - Websense Essential Information Protection provides integrated threat protection and powerful policy based control over an organization's sensitive data by managing the "who, what, how and where" of their essential information.
Total E-mail Security
Published by: Sunbelt Software | 11 Nov 2008
WHITE PAPER - Malware is becoming ever more sophisticated every day. Only through effective tools that incorporate fast responses against all categories of malware will organizations be able to maintain the health of their critical business systems.
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  WEBCASTS: 1 - 3 of 5
Locking down Exchange Server: Planning for Exchange 12 - Expert Webcast

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PREMIERED:   20 APR 2006, 09:00 EDT (13:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   Learn about the next version of Exchange Server -- i.e., Exchange 12 -- including new secure messaging features, new server roles options, expected infrastructure changes and 32-bit/64-bit database considerations.
Locking down Exchange Server: Security features of Exchange 2003 SP2 - Expert Webcast

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PREMIERED:   11 APR 2006, 09:00 EDT (13:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   Learn about the new administrative features, Sender ID filtering and mobile security enhancements available in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2.
Locking down Exchange Server: Securing the client - Expert Webcast

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PREMIERED:   06 APR 2006, 09:00 EDT (13:00, GMT)
SUMMARY:   Learn about Microsoft Outlook remote options -- including Outlook Web Access, VPNs and RPC over HTTP -- Outlook's Junk E-Mail Filter, beacon blocking and anti-phishing features available in Office 2003 SP2.
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  DOWNLOADS: 1 - 3 of 3
Our SearchExchange.com experts' favorite freeware
Published by: SearchExchange.com | 22 Sep 2005
FAVORITE DOWNLOADS - This collection of tool downloads will help you get your Exchange Server environment in tip-top shape -- and you won't have to spend a dime.
Exchange Intelligent Message Filter
Published by: Microsoft | 07 Sep 2005
DOWNLOAD - Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter provides server-side message filtering, heuristics-based message analysis and support for per-message spam confidence level ratings.
Sam Spade
Published by: Sam Spade | 06 Sep 2005
DOWNLOAD - Sam Spade is a network query tool with extra utilities, such as Ping, Traceroute, Whois and Finger, to validate e-mail addresses and track down spammers.
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  BEST WEB LINKS: 1 - 3 of 15
Top 5 Exchange Intelligent Message Filter add-on tools
Abbey Weintraub, Assistant Editor | 03 Oct 2007
RESOURCE GUIDE - Discover five notable Exchange Intelligent Message Filter freeware and third-party add-on tools that improve IMF's usability and antispam capabilities.
Avoiding open relays
SearchNetworking.com | 10 Oct 2005
BEST WEB LINK - Getting on a spam blacklist can cause an annoying and crippling e-mail outage. One of the keys to staying off blacklists is making sure your e-mail system doesn't turn into an open relay. Tom Lancaster shows you how in this ...
What is spyware? The definition dilemma
SearchSecurity.com | 21 Sep 2005
BEST WEB LINK - Spyware is capable of doing many nasty things on your systems, making it difficult to define and defend against. In this tip, malware guru Ed Skoudis examines the range of activities performed by spyware to help you come to ...
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 14
KnujOn
21 Nov 2007
WORD - The KnujOn Project is an interactive Web-based spam reporting service. By working with the Internet community at large and focusing on shutting down the distribution points for spam, the KnujOn Project hopes to cut off spam ...
greylist
14 Mar 2007
WORD - A graylist (also spelled greylist) is a list of e-mail addresses or domain names a spam filter can use to identify suspected spam. If a message arrives from an address or domain on the list, it will be quarantined and then ...
spam confidence level
18 Oct 2006
WORD - Spam confidence level (SCL) is a numerical value indicating the likelihood that an incoming email message is spam. SCL is a component of the Microsoft Exchange spam filter, Intelligent Message Filter (Exchange IMF). The ...
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  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 37
Spammers tweak Storm to push PDF spam, less image spam
SearchSecurity.com | 13 Jul 2007
ARTICLE - Spammers that target enterprises are switching from image spam to emails containing PDF attachments that could eventually perform denial of service attacks and spread bot code.
Postini buy helps Google address IT compliance demands
SearchWinIT.com | 09 Jul 2007
ARTICLE - With Postini in its pocket, Google hopes to win over IT shops running Microsoft Office to Google Apps with its new security credentials.
IETF approves new weapon to fight spam, phish
SearchSecurity.com | 23 May 2007
ARTICLE - DomainKeys Identified Mail specification (DKIM) gained approval as an official IETF standard. The approval is seen as a major step in the fight against spam and phishing attacks.
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SEE ALSO - Topics Related to Antispam Software and Spam Filtering: 
User Authentication for Microsoft Outlook and OWA, Email Policy Management, Phishing and Email Fraud Protection, ISA Server and Firewalls for Microsoft Exchange Server, Email Compliance, Email Encryption, Microsoft Exchange Server Password Management, Microsoft Exchange Server Permissions, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Antivirus Software and Virus Protection



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