RE: All-in-one Spam/Virus Solution
- From: "Joel Pippin" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:50:13 -0400
My clients are very happy with the IronPort Blocker I procured last month.
If you have 3 grand or so to put towards a solution that actually works with
reliable support, then I recommend a gateway like this one. I have a few
admin friends who are happy with Barracuda, but I've read that the false
positives are pretty high. Another thing that swayed me was that Dell uses
IronPort and that IronPort's SenderBase reputation scoring is relied upon
industry-wide.
I'm still waiting for my SpamAssassin clients to stop complaining about how
bad spam has become.
- J Pippin
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 3:49 PM
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Subject: Re: All-in-one Spam/Virus Solution
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 01:43:00PM +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi Mike,would be considered as well.
Mike Preslicka wrote:
Hey everyone,
My company is the process of looking for a new all-in-one
spam/virus solution for our servers and workstations. Along with
those we want something for exchange as well. We're currently using
Trend Micro's Client Server Messaging Suite. The reason we want to
replace this product is: 1) there technical support is horrible and
seems like the people I talk to in tech support know nothing about
their product, and 2) Every time an update is made, some useful
feature has been removed. So we're looking for an alternative
solution. In reality an all-in-one type solution would be
preferred, but separate solutions for workstations, servers, and email
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know! Thank you for
your time and help!
I'd suggest running your email thru a Postfix mailserver with ClamAv
and SpamAssassin active. Keep your email store as your exchange box
and then install AVG free on the desktops to automatically update from
your proxy server. This will initially need someone to decide what
email is spam and what not so that SpamAssassin can learn. Keep a
daily check on it and soon you should have SpamAssasin catching all
the spam and likewise ClamAv catching the viruses. Whatever they don't
catch the AVG product on the desktop will. I believe that the paid
version of AVG offers a spam detection engine as well so it might be a
good idea to add this onto your workstations.
Technically, using the free version of AVG on desktops in a business network
is a violation of license terms. If you want to use AVG (which is an
excellent desktop antivirus solution), you should look into the paid version
of the software.
ClamWin is one of the best virus scanners available, and may also be worth
looking into for that reason (as well as being open source software). On
the downside, ClamWin does not provide "realtime"
scanning.
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