A little assistance here fellows ce-vu-play. For some reason I have started to receive nasty e-mail solicitations with titles like "young girls with cum on their faces" etc. Bad stuff. Rather than change my eddress, I decided to use the "tools- make message rules" thingy. So i choose to delete e-mails that have particular words. It works. But the prob is it eliminates all words that CONTAIN the offensive word such as "Cummings" since it contains "cum". How can I make message rules to eliminate offensive words with out filtering out longer words that contain the offensive element???? Thanks!
www.ihatespam.com this is one app I recommend. other ones that are free well... they work but only to an extent. it is worth the few bucks for this app IMO. but when it comes down to it, there isn't much you can do, because it will seep in someway somehow, just like the nastly little spyware apps that are out there. and a lot of the spam that is sent out these days is done by folks like you and me, from spyware/malware apps that are installed on computers, which act as drones to do their dirty work.
Thanks, I'll check it out. I don't mind paying a few bucks for a good program. Addendum: That site has a lot listed, which one is best??
ihatespam is sold by Sunbelt Software here: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?page=about&id=930 I deal mainly with server-based stuff (and do spam filtering for small businesses), but ihatespam is good for a client-based product. I agree with Randy's recommendation.
DMC, what do you recommend for server based applications? We have one built in filter with Exchange 2003 and I just added the sbl.spamhaus.org to the filters list the other night. Approx 160-180 clients/mailboxes.
Randy, I started using a product called xwall (www.xwall.us). It's improved quite a bit over the year I've been using it, and it's not expensive. It would work really well for the number of users you mentioned. The Exchange IMF isn't too bad. I like having more control over the filtering. IMF won't do some of the newer spam filtering techniques like greylisting. I have xwall checking about 10 different IP based SLS's, and 4 domain based SLS's, plus a heuristics filter. Keeps a DNS server busy with about 18,000 messages per day. Users report about 98% spam filtered, with very few false positives. Xwall will also do auto-whitelisting if you route outbound mail through it. I could crank up the heuristics filters if we did that. It will also do Bayes filtering, but that got to be a pain. Too easy for spammers to poison the db. The product is really lightweight, I'm running it on a 500 MHz PIII and it's hardly even hitting the processor.
We're using Mailfrontier Gateway to block spam at our enterprise. Pretty good stuff, it allows the individuals to customize their blocking via a web interface, sends reports with "deliver this email" links, and seems pretty effective. Some still get though, but not huge amounts. We deal with several million inbound messages a day, and fewer than 5000 are legitimate email. I wish all spammers would die. Not all the several million get as far as the Mailfrontier service, there's several layers of filtering (illegitimate addresses, attachments, etc) in front of it Uro, I also recommend the IHateSpam for the client side. I canNOT recommended as a server-side app, as it has(had) an undisclosed bug that would hang Exchange servers. Sunbelt wouldn't even tell us about it until we had Microsoft conferenced in on a support call and MS told us about the bug. Sunbelt lost our business for good that day.
We use IceWarp mail server by Merak Software for our mail server. It filters spam, has challenge response if you want it, and virus scan. All without the headaches of Exchange. My personal account went from 100+ spam messages a day to 1 or 2, which has increased my quality of life significantly!
