Anti Spam

EDITORS' PICK: GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP Listing updated: February 22, 2008

GFI MailEssentials is a server based anti-spam, anti-phishing & email management solution for Exchange, which catches spam at server level.

GFI MailEssentials also protects users from phishing emails by detecting and blocking them before they reach the recipient’s mailbox. Emails originating from, and terminating at the network are processed by advanced technologies built in GFI MailEssentials, maximizing spam capture rate whilst minimizing false positives.

GFI MailEssentials offers a high spam detection rate (98%) because of its Bayesian filtering technology and low false positives through its auto whitelist feature. GFI MailEssentials installs on the server (and therefore requires no client software) and allows users to review email marked as spam from junk mail folder.

Other features include: Disclaimers, mail monitoring of particular email addresses, centralized mail archiving to database, mail reporting, auto replies with variables/fields and seamless integration with Exchange Server 2000/2003 & 2007!

A free 30-day trial version can be downloaded without registration! Purchase GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP at permanently reduced pricing!

TechGenix Reviews & Awards:

  • Users' Rating: 4.27 [303 votes] - Vote
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XWall for Microsoft Exchange Listing updated: April 30, 2007

Works with: Every version of Exchange server including
Exchange 2000/2003/2007, SBS 2000/2003 and Exchange 5.5; Any SMTP server like IMail, Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise; Junk-E-Mail Folder of Exchange 2003/2007 using XWALLFilter event sink
Dial-up, dial-up routers, ADSL and leased-line connections to the Internet; Spam Detection using: Multi Real-time Blackhole List - RBL / SLS / SPAM database; Greylisting spam filter; SURBL - Spam URI Real-time Blocklists - www.surbl.org; Bayesian pattern filter; SPF - Sender Permitted From - Sender Policy Framework; Sender ID
Central Checksum Service (CCS) bulk e-mail detection; Heuristic spam filter; Phishing filter; Image spam filter and much more!
  • Users' Rating: 4.87 [99 votes] - Vote
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Exclaimer Mail Utilities for Exchange Listing updated: May 17, 2007

Add legal disclaimers and signatures to your email: Attach text and images to any incoming, outgoing or internal email. Add standard legal disclaimers to every outgoing email, or make professional-looking email with company logos and colors. Additionally, using fields from the Active Directory, the added text can automatically be personalized. Monitor and archive your internal and Internet email: this feature allows copies of incoming outgoing or internal email to be invisibly sent to a specified mailbox. Auto-responder: Set up automatic server-based replies to emails. These can be simple out-of-office notifications or automated replies to email queries, complete with file attachments and full HTML formatting.

Mail blocking and redirection: Block or redirect email before it reaches the intended recipient. By integrating with the Active Directory, and with a rule-based system, you can change the behavior of each feature based on the senders and recipients.

TechGenix Reviews & Awards:

  • Users' Rating: 4.56 [170 votes] - Vote
  • Comments: 5 comments - View / Post

GFI MailDefense Suite Listing updated: September 4, 2008

Anti-virus, anti-spam & anti-phishing suite for Exchange server and other mail servers. Email is a primary means of communication but it is also used to commit fraud, sell products and services and cause damage to networks. Dealing with the huge amount of junk email hitting mail servers and email threats such as viruses and malware can be a nightmare. An effective way to do so would be to install GFI MailDefense Suite, comprising two of GFI’s award-winning solutions, to filter spam, stop viruses and malware in a single downloadable package.

GFI MailDefense Suite makes use of multiple technologies, such as Bayesian filtering to remove spam and up to five anti-virus engines to clean email of viruses. It is easy to install, configure and run while it ships at a price that is the lowest on the market. GFI MailDefense offers the highest spam detection rate (over 98%) and very low rate of false positives. It supports the industry leading messaging platforms including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Domino.

If you are looking for a holistic way to handle spam and viruses, then GFI MailDefense is the right tool, at the right price, for you. A free 30-day trial is available for download from our website.
  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [2 votes] - Vote
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Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Listing updated: July 5, 2006

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 protects users of corporate mail systems against viruses and spam, and can be centrally administered.

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 provides antivirus scanning of incoming and outgoing messages and mail stored on the server, as well as messages in shared folders. It also helps mail system users to block unwanted mail using intelligent spam recognition technologies in addition to technologies provided by Microsoft.
  • Users' Rating: 4.35 [31 votes] - Vote
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Trend Micro ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange Listing updated: April 25, 2007

Trend Micro ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange guards against viruses, Trojans, worms, and other malicious code hidden in email attachments. By filtering inbound/outbound SMTP connector-level traffic, it blocks threats before they can enter or leave the mail server. For additional security, Trend Micro ScanMail Suite for Microsoft Exchange combines virus protection with new anti-spam and advanced content filtering technology. A centralized management console makes it easy to deploy group configurations, scan settings, notifications, and automatic updates—across all Exchange servers.

TechGenix Reviews & Awards:

  • Users' Rating: 4.23 [137 votes] - Vote
  • Comments: 4 comments - View / Post

ORF Enterprise Edition Listing updated: June 25, 2008

ORF Enterprise Edition is an anti-spam solution that helps you to block spam before it reaches your network. ORF uses a combination of anti-spam technologies and custom filtering options to stop the spam on SMTP protocol level. ORF can be used with Microsoft Exchange Servers and the IIS SMTP Service shipped with Microsoft Windows.
  • Users' Rating: 4.21 [207 votes] - Vote
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SpamTitan for VMware Listing updated: July 31, 2008

SpamTitan software allows you to create a certified virtual email appliance for your gateway offering protection from Viruses, Spam, Malware, Phishing and unwanted content.

Available as a free 30 day download, SpamTitan blocks in excess of 98.5% of spam. It includes Kaspersky Labs and Clam AV. Features include end user quarantine reports, in and out bound scanning, disclaimers, and a full reporting suite. All updating is automated ensuring the lowest possible management overhead. SpamTitan for VMware is one of the first Virtual Appliances on the market. It allows the customer all the benefits associated with a traditional hardware gateway appliance but even further advantages of virtualization including ease of deployment, back up and redundancy and cost savings. SpamTitan is a certified VMware Appliance.
  • Users' Rating: 4.2 [15 votes] - Vote
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SpamTitan ISO Listing updated: July 31, 2008

SpamTitan software allows you to create an email appliance for your gateway offering protection from Viruses, Spam, Malware, Phishing and unwanted content.

Available as a free 30 day download, SpamTitan blocks in excess of 98.5% of spam. It includes Kaspersky Labs and Clam Anti Virus. Features include end user quarantine reports, in and out bound scanning, disclaimers, and a full reporting suite. All updating is automated ensuring the lowest possible management overhead. SpamTitan ISO is a complete operating system and antispam application bundled to offer a simply deployed gateway solution. It allows the customer all the benefits associated with a traditional hardware gateway appliance but with the further advantage of the control of their own hardware.
  • Users' Rating: 4.2 [5 votes] - Vote
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McAfee SpamKiller for Mail Servers Listing updated: October 18, 2005

McAfee SpamKiller for Mail Servers offers growing businesses spam protection and performance for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino mail servers.

Product Features include: Rules-based scanning - The SpamKiller product family is powered by the McAfee SpamAssassin engine, which scores or rates emails based on a series of tests; Spam scoring system - Spam scoring is a spam-detection safeguard, as it can differentiate legitimate “gray-area” messages; Integrity Analysis - SpamKiller examines the header, layout and organization of each email message, to identify the common characteristics of spam; Heuristic detection - A series of internal tests determines the likelihood of a message being spam, and each test carries a score to help reduce false positives; Content filtering - This functionality identifies key words or phrases that appear in an email, which could indicate that the message is spam; Black- and whitelists - Set the standards at the server-level to determine spam email by using the global whitelist and blacklist settings. Individuals may supplement the rule set at the desktop by defining their own whitelist and blacklist entries; Bayesian filtering – McAfee SpamKiller provides Bayesian filtering technology to allow email messages to be “intelligently” assessed for spam and non-spam criteria; Self-tuning - SpamAssassin learns the characteristics of the email you receive. It adjusts the overall spam rating for new messages, when sent by a known sender, and more...

TechGenix Reviews & Awards:

  • Users' Rating: 4.17 [12 votes] - Vote
  • Comments: 0 comments - Post

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