Symantec Internet Security for Microsoft Exchange

[Don]

So I got this to protect our Exchange Server. Great. It is already providing complete protection against Viruses. Brilliant.

But there is NO default settings for the Anti-Spam filters.

I'd REALLY like to start filtering the junk out - but the only way to do this would seem to be going through all the spam mail for a day trying to create rules which catch it.

Does anyone have some rules to give me a head start? Or know a good forum/community which might have some of these?

God I hate Spam. Boy do I want to start using the Filters...

[andyf007]

There are companies out there that provide blackhole lists of known spammers that you can subscribe too, though how compatible they are with Symantec's stuff I don't know. Have you tried asking Symantec this question?

Andy

[davidd]

Exchange 2003 has some stuff built, only black and whitelists but it will let you have dns blacklist lookups.

D.

[maddog[uk]]

we use this product called ironmail www.ciphertrust.com/ironmail/ which to be be honest has been awesome but then we were getting 100,000 spam messages a day.

[Don]

Thanks guys. I haven't spoken to Symantec yet - but we've already made some inroads into configuring the rules...

[andyf007]

davidd said:

Exchange 2003 has some stuff built, only black and whitelists but it will let you have dns blacklist lookups. D.

I was talking to one of the exchange guys from Microsoft yesterday at a business seminar, and apparently Microsoft built this functionality in because of the 400Mb of email traffic they receive a day only about 4Mb is valid stuff. It can also accept the third party blacklists too, I believe.

[jam1et]

Find an ISP that has spam filtering?