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- Ruling Out Spam With Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and Help From Capital Technologies Ltd. Saves a Law Firm $323,000 a Year
- Spam makes up as much as 50 percent of the email that New Zealand law firm Kensington Swan receives each day. A custom antispam solution stopped 30 percent of that spam, but users still had to spend around 10 minutes a day deleting unwanted email, some of which was obscene,...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Anti-spam, Brightmail Inc., Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Case studies
- Quadrupling the Catch Rate of Image-Based Spam With Symantec Brightmail Helps Keep Inboxes Spam-Free at Leading Email Service Provider
- USA.NET, a message service hosting provider, saw the quality of its message services threatened by a jump in image-based spam in late 2006. Symantec analysts developed new tools and techniques for an antispam solution that more than quadrupled the catch rate for image-based spam. This virtually eliminated it from USA.NET...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., E-mail, USA.NET, Brightmail Inc., Security
- Case studies
- Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processor-Powered Servers
- Electronic mail is a business-critical function in virtually every enterprise, and it is also one that is under constant attack. Well-known viruses such as Melissa, and worms like SoBig have propagated through email and have disrupted user PCs and corporate networks worldwide. Fraudulent email messages find their ways into inboxes...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., T2, Anti-spam, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Sun UltraSPARC, Server, E-mail Message, Brightmail Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2007-12-07
- Exchange Server Best Practices Advice for spam Explosion
- Good Day everybody.I have been a Tech Republic member for many years (under a different name prior to 2004), but this is my first posting. Yee-hahOur organization has a problem and I could use some input from the community.We run a native Windows 2003 AD domain with Exchange Server 2003...
- Tags: E-mail, Cyberthreats, Servers, dmiller@..., server, SMTP, spam, Brightmail Inc., processor, Microsoft Exchange Server
- Discussion threads 2007-06-13
- Symantec Antivirus (Brightmail) for Ms Exchange Servers
- Problem:The IIS, SMTP, POP3 and WWW services crash frequently on the Exchange with Symantec Antivirus servers and they took Exchange down. This happens with a frequency of once or twice an hour - or maybe more.Resolution:This issue is cause
- Tags: imap, e-mail, antivirus, exchange, symantec, security, DaShard_z, Symantec Corp., brightmail, pop3 service, iis services, Brightmail Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server, Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Mail Security, server
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- Commercial anti-spam solutions: Are they worth the price tag?
- Brightmail, Couldn't live without it!I've been using Brightmail for nearly 1.5 years. Our company of about 30 people (out of 200+ which have email), continues to get more spam everyday. We have doubled our volume in the 1.5 years that we've had Br
- Tags: scanning, networking, spam, virus, software, security, jakesty, e-mail, Brightmail Inc., anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- Symantec Brightmail Antispam 6.0 Evaluation Guide: Service Provider Edition
- Off late more than 300 million email users are protected by Symantec's antispam and email security technologies. Over 2,500 businesses, governments, and organizations - including more than 90 service providers such as EarthLink, HotMail, MSN, Telstra, Terra Mexico - worldwide have embraced Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam. Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0 is...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Brightmail Inc., Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0, Security
- White papers 2005-01-01
- The Spam Problem and the Brightmail Filtering Engine
- The latest generation of spam incorporates sophisticated tactics such as extreme randomization, origin concealment, and filter evasion using HTML. Spammers continue to try to escape filtering, raising the stakes. This white paper describes how Brightmail's research and development groups continually adapt filtering software to challenge spammers and screen out their...
- Tags: Brightmail Inc., Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2004-02-23
- How to stop spam and keep e-mail moving
- Spam is more than a nuisance; it is a serious threat to your network. Managed properly, e-mail filtering software can reduce the risk. Here is how to tune your filter so it stops spam without choking off enterprise e-mail.Spam is not only a nuisance, but it can also be hazardous...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SurfControl plc, MessageLabs Ltd., Brian Hook, spam, e-mail, Brightmail Inc., anti-spam
- Technical articles 2002-05-03
- Decision Support: The goal of enterprise antispam programs
- By Joyce GraffThe goal of an enterprise antispam program is to sort out the "good guys" from the "bad guys" and empower the end users to control their own desktop environments. The bad guys of e-mail consist of:Pure trash spam (messages from senders that don't exist, confidence games).Chain letters, hoaxes,...
- Tags: anti-spam, bad guy, Brightmail Inc., decision support, Fighting Spam, Gartner , Postini Corp., spam
- Technical articles 2003-01-22
Additional Resources
- Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
- I am trying to set up mail security for smtp for our corporate network. The scenoria is the brightmail is going to be in DMZ and our exchange server is in LAN. During the set up process, do I need to point the mx records from my isp to brightmail?And...
- Tags: E-mail, NETWORKING, adil_acikgoz@..., SMTP, security, Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- Fighting Spam While Maintaining Free Access to Public Information
- The municipal government of Skovde, Sweden dealt with a growing spam problem within the confines of laws and customs that protect communications with government agencies. By installing Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software, it stopped spam from reaching employee desks, while saving the messages for review. Immediately upon implementation, the solution has...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Microsoft Access, E-mail, Security, Online Communications
- Case studies
- SBS 2003 exchange 2003 some emails are not received
- I have a few important donors who have sent emails to our manager (exchange email account)but it was not held by Brightmail Antispam on the server nor was there any trace in the System Manager under tracking. The sender also did not receive any bounce back.On a test of a...
- Tags: dcsalser@..., e-mail, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
- Discussion threads 2007-07-09
- SBS 2003 exchange 2003 some emails are not received
- I have a few important donors who have sent emails to our manager (exchange email account)but it was not held by Brightmail Antispam on the server nor was there any trace in the System Manager under tracking. The sender also did not receive any bounce back.On a test of a...
- Tags: dcsalser@..., e-mail, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server
- Discussion threads 2007-07-09
- Making Email More Available and Secure, Saving Millions of Dollars
- After the acquisition of 30 companies, Advantage Sales and Marketing (ASM), one of the fastest growing sales and marketing agencies, wanted to consolidate its email systems into one centralized email infrastructure. Needing accurate spam protection, scalable storage, and accessible archives, ASM turned to Symantec for an email security and availability...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., E-mail, Security, Online Communications
- Case studies
- Best Email Ati-spam /Firewall
- WE are considering implanting an enterprise email security system for about 500 users. We are considering GFI mail essentials and GFI mail security versus Barracuda Network spam fire wall. Can anybody suggest the better product of the two.Try ISS Proventia Mail Filterrgds,Can you elaborate on why you chose GFI over...
- Tags: Barracuda Network, e-mail, GFI Mail Security, ndikid@..., security
- Q&A 2005-07-14
- Trialware: Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
- Powered by Symantec's award-winning Brightmail AntiSpam technology, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP provides best-of-breed perimeter protection for corporate messaging systems. The solution integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange and Domino infrastructures and features expanded content filtering and compliance tools to defend enterprise e-mail against: Spam Spyware ...
- Tags: SMTP, Symantec Corp., Solution, E-mail, Security, Online Communications
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- Phishing Attacks in and Around April Through September 2006
- This paper describes phishing trends from April 2006 through September 2006 inclusive. The aim is to perform the kind of careful analysis done in the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, but with a focus on phishing. The authors looked at data that originated from both the Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2006-11-30
- Secure Your Email Infrastructure and Maintain Compliance
- Email is currently the most critical enterprise messaging application. Beyond communication, it has become an important repository and record of corporate transactions and intellectual property. IT managers face the difficult challenge of mitigating risks to email such as malicious code, phishing attacks, viruses, and spam while ensuring system uptime and...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Compliance, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing
- Webcasts
- Stopping spam at the root
- Based on the spoofing and general deceitful tactics now utilised by spammers, how does one trace an email (emails) back to the original sender. Whether that sender is an infected machine (adware) or the culprit himself.Then, how much sense would this suggestion make:Can we start a list of all emails...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail, spam
- Discussion threads 2005-02-14
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