ANTI-SPAMMING SOLUTIONS

The quantity of unsolicited email being directed to Internet mail users has grown from an occasional message to the majority of the total messaging activity. Not only is content inappropriate in most cases, but productivity is lost and bandwidth is taken up, thus costing your organization money.

There are many email filtering products on the market but, you may ask, what products will effectively reduce SPAM?

It is difficult to identify the products that prove to reduce SPAM without talking to someone with technical expertise first. PC Professional can help you choose anti-spamming products and develop anti-spamming solutions that will benefit your company and support your system.

TB ITservices has researched, evaluated and implemented numerous anti-spamming products that effectively reduce the number of undesired and inappropriate messages cluttering inboxes. From the numerous products and techniques evaluated, we can recommend one for your company based on number of users, email platform and cost.

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Network Associates
SpamKiller for Microsoft Exchange Server
Originally developed by Deersoft, Inc and acquired by Network Associates in January 2003, SpamKiller for Microsoft Exchange Small Business (servers with 500 mailboxes or less) proves to be very effective. SpamKiller for Exchange is an enterprise solution that installs directly on your Exchanger server, allowing both User and Admin collaboration on classifying SPAM, as well as, already effective canned anti-spamming that comes with the product. And, just like most of the Network Associates products, SpamKiller for Exchange is priced in a modular manner to fit with the number of users in your organization. For more information, read about McAfee Security Products.

SpamKiller for Consumers and Small Businesses
McAfee SpamKiller is the leading anti-spam product for consumers (home users) and small businesses using out-of-office servers. Filtering is advanced rule-based and list based to stop SPAM from polluting your inbox. Unwanted messages are quarantined in a "killed mail" folder outside your inbox.

Microsoft Outlook Filtering Tools
In efforts to reduce SPAM email, custom server-based rules in Outlook can be created. Categories can be created to filter unwanted email based on specific "keyword terms." In order to get the highest level of filtering, three custom server based rules need to be created and applied: exception rules where “keyword terms” are the domain names of senders you want to receive email from; rules that search the subject line and body content of an email for specific terms that are common in many junk mail messages; and rules that look for keyword terms in the senders address.