User was tricked at home, he took the whole bait and hook, paid $ to a fake Microsoft person and allowed them on his computer. Anyway after running some tools and removing malicious malware he still has on his desktop a fake phone number that shows on his Task bar area. This is a Vista O.S. how do I remove?
I will be reformatting the computer in a  couple week.

We have a Barracuda spam/Firewall 300 here that's got about 30,000 blocked/deferred messages in the outbound queue that I need to get deleted. I can't even bring up the outbound queue in queue management. I spent over an hour with Support and they cant connect with the guy couldn't figure out how to connect with it....that's a different issue. How can I clear these out? Its killing our mail throughput?? I know its got SSH but I can't connect to it. I'm not local to the system but I've got full admin rights. I cant even pull the export out of it.

Dear Experts,

My clients and I tried to send emails to proofpoint customers but they get deferred or delayed.

I have done a blacklist check and our IP address is not blacklisted.

Is there anyway to contact proofpoint and inform them about this and get it resolved?

Hello,

Looking for suggestions for the best anti-spam solution (software, not hardware)

Currently using Spamexperts, but still receive 5-8 spam messages per week, perhaps this is the best possible without blocking valid / clean messages?

I am looking for a hosted solution.

Thank you,

Hi Guys,

We recently acquired the Antispam (CASS2.0) for SonicWall TZ400.
The feature has been installed and configured, but not yet enabled.

I just need some basic understanding and information from someone re the TZ400 Antispam feature.

1.  Our mail does not currently spool via the TZ400 router, it comes via another gateway.   I gather that we have to change our MX to route mail via the TZ400 for the antispam feature to work?

2.  Once mail packets pass via the SonicWall router, will the TZ400 pick up the mail traffic from the NAT rule for port 25 automatically?

3.  We will be using the current gateway as secondary MX (fail-over).  Any other suggestions regarding the config and first hand experience?

Trying to create an send connector to first send e-mail to our spam filter service.  

Here is the configuration:
Type=Internet
Address Space:  Type=SMPT, Address=*, Cost=1
Network:  Route mail through the following host:  Smart Host:  NA0100.SMTPOUT.COM
Source Server:  equal our server.  

All outbound mail is being delivered, but it is not reaching the spam filter site.  Their technical support thinks it is the fault of the Send Connector and they are lacking in Exchange expertise.

Inbound works great and I would like the added benefits of the outbound for this customer, especially since they are a sensitive site.

Thank you for your assistance.

Hi Experts,

is it possible to activate the antispam filter in EXCH2013 ?
How to check if its activated ?

Hi, we are deploying our own Exchange Mail server but do not have budget for Email security devices, such as Dell Sonicwall or Barracuda. How can anyone please suggest the best AV software (license) for Exchange Mail server? we did some research and found out some options like Kaspersky , Avast , ESET, AVG but have not decided yet. Thank you.

Currently our Proofpoint can take from a few minutes to 3 hours before it detects new
emails containing certain attachments & links (ie new threats) are 'malicious' or spam.
To claw back malicious emails 2-3 hours later is rather late. Wud rather have late delivery.

Our Bluecoat MAA that protects against malicious downloading (or malicious sites) can
take up to several minute : just encountered one case yesterday where malicious .eot
files were downloaded by several users before it blocked users from downloading.
This Bluecoat MAA is supposed to protect against 0-day and unknown threats as well
but we have got quite a few infections/downloads in the past: possibly its 'sandboxing'
is not real-time / fast enough.

I'm hesistant to deploy endpoint IPS (HIPS) on workstations at this moment so skip
this for the time being as HIPS can impact legit services/apps if not tested thoroughly
while network based tools like MAA (& Trendmicro Discovery) are less disruptive.

Besides educating users (which we have done quite a lot), I'm looking for sandboxing
products that could perform much faster : I read one academic article that products
that implement 'prefetching' using multi layer of caches are much faster.  If they use
SSD, wud it be faster?

In particular against ransomware as one highly successful one as extracted below:

Sky News Technology Correspondent Tom Cheshire described the attack as "unprecedented". The ransomware appears to use NSA 0-day …

Like millions of others, I wake up to view many spam messages on my devices. I dislike it immensely. Is there a string or are there strings of words and phrases that I can use without trying to come up with all of them myself that I can exclude? For example, I NEVER want to see any email or sms that contains: "you have been selected" or "congratulations" or "important new breakthrough" or "blue pill". You get the idea. I don't mind creating rejection rules but I would like to start with one creation session that would catch a large percentage of crap and bury it before I even see it. I don't want to get so deep into this quest that I subscribe to any email forwarding service. I will also add, in case it gives anyone some ideas, that I have my own domain and can add and delete any number of emails I wish. I have learned that (obviously) since a questionnaire or sales inquiry indicates "we will not share this data with anyone" is pure @%#$^!%$. Miffed.  I use Outlook on my PCs.