Third Party Spam Message Filtering Means no Hardware Troubles

Filed under: Software Infos, University of Networking — admin at 11:50 pm on Saturday, November 7, 2009

The gains of using an oursourced hosted unwanted-mail-blocking email server.

With rising volume of spam e-mails that drain a substantial amount of companies financial resources and eat bandwidth, outsourced hosted server could give them freedom from this headache and increase their productivity.

You need the Internet for your daily activities both privately and professionally, but when a major part of it contains unwanted e-mails and malware, is suddenly is a factor that creates stress and frustration for the entire organisation from IT administrators to end users.

The world wide web continues to spread out and becomes available to more and more people - young and old - spam follows this spread out trend resulting in increasing time and finansial resouces spend on filtering junk mail from legitimate mails. Uderestimating the cost of removing junk e-mails is very common - people tend to believe that removing a spam e-mail just takes a couple of seconds. However, suddenly unwanted e-mails appear in huge numbers on a daily basis consuming valuable time and user’s concentration.

Junk mails are more than just irritating in their nature, they also put significant stress on the entire operation of a company because they occupy network and waste bandwidth. Every unsolicited message delivered uses bandwidth and in some cases spam account for nearly 50% of the entire network.

Companies ranging from big names that have dedicated department of IT security to small enterprises, which spend a very small proportion of their annual budget on web security, are plagued by unproductive bandwidth. In addition, both national and regional governments have taken serious actions towards passing spam preventing legislation, however, their this has proven to be insufficent because World Wide Web crime continue to run with new and more andvanced technology.

Spam e-mailers have formed their own underground community equipped with networks of hosted computers and innovative attack methods. A number of studies have shown that spam are draining financial resources and posting security threats to organizations by exposing their networks to malware, spyware and other malicious codes.

Such security threats stress the need to implement advanced malware filtering on hosted mail servers to decrease the cost of operating and protecting the internal network from collapse. Businesses can better guard themselves against online threats by hiring services of outsourced hosted servers.

A strong argument for using outsourced hosted services for mail is the amount of time companies save becayse the no longer have to worry about handling hardware, software, integration and maintenance of the spam filter. Professional personnel monitor their systems day and night and makes sure every single unwanted mail is blocked and quarantined passing only legitimate e-mails to the the end users’ inbox.

The hassle of clearing user inbox everyday rests with the outsourced hosted server, which also provides valuable information that makes the process understandable to less tech-friendly users.

Author:Martin Faklor

MS Exchange Email Server - How to Filter Spam

Filed under: University of Networking, Web Of Websters — admin at 6:23 am on Thursday, October 22, 2009

Microsoft Exchange Server - Filtering Spam Effectively

By: George H. Biwit

Increasing threat from spam emails raises the need to monitor and remove illegitimate messages, thus ensuring proper functioning of the Microsoft Exchange system.

Malicious e-mail adds trouble and decreases productivity and is a major threat to todays business world . Companies get tons of indecent, deceptive and irking e-mails in bulk regularly. Spam is the word most commonly used to express discarded, unwanted and promotional mails. Spam is not an acronym, thus it doesn’t denote something. A spam e-mail is usually an e-mail with commercial content that is sent to thousands of recipients who never requested any kind of information from the person or organisation sending it.

Being bombarded with huge volum of unwanted e-mails with commercial content can cost businesses and individuals lots of resources and time while sorting and deleting unsolicited messages from the legitimate messages. This hinders an effective organisation and generates frustrated employees.

Removing spam is a lengthy process; performance of the e-mail server gets several affected and network security is also put at greater risk from malevolent e-mails. Furthermore, the company also faces the risk as these spam mails might lead to irreparable harm to the systems, thus causing disorder and big loss of work and capital to the company.

The only guard against the threat from spam is professional asistance ensuring complete security and protection. Make sure your mail server is shielded properly to assure that every byte of passing data is filtered and blocked against spam. Normally a spam filter for an e-mail server is software that analyzes every incoming e-mail, detects spam based on standard configurations and removed the unwanted junk mails so they never end up in the users’ inbox And one of the widely used servers is that developed by Microsoft. Dubbed as Exchange Server, this Microsoft product makes e-mailing more speedy and resourceful.

Spam devices can be of great help to carry out filtering at an exchange server or unwanted mail blocking at exchange server. A server side spam filter enables users to automate the procedure to sort and remove spam at the server level i.e. before it reaches the internal network and each user’s personal computer. Making this process automatic is recommended as it protects each personal computer, it protects the internal network and prevents data loss and users’ downtime.

No technology used to filter spam is perfect. Periodically a network administrator still needs to monitor all filtered mails to prevent that Microsoft Exchange does not block legitimate mails.

Defining Who You Are on the Web

Filed under: Aid, History Hall, University of Networking — admin at 10:08 pm on Sunday, October 18, 2009

Who are you? How do you answer that question? Have you asked how people see you in the greater scheme of things? What we do, where we live, and who we know are all aspects of how we define ourselves. We need to think about how we share these aspects of ourselves with others.

Current technology makes it possible for us to share information about ourselves across the globe through the Internet. Many companies operate databases for professional services, personal interests, and job hunting. By creating profiles on these sites we help ourselves create and shape the visibility we want and need.

For example, let’s take a look at George Jones. Who is he? He is a retiree who lives in Maine, apparently having worked in the tobacco industry for many years. Let’s not try to hold that against him. George looks like a nice guy.

And what about Dennis Tamburo? Unlike George, Dennis seems to have made hardly any statement about himself in his profile. Now maybe Dennis is a really great guy like you, but if you don’t want to leave an empty profile for people to find, you need to fill out your own profile. Don’t just let people assume you’re a great person.

You might just need to promote yourself in business. Many independent business consultants and agents do just that, like Cindy Thomas. Just by searching on her name you may be able to find out where she works, which professional organizations she participates in, and what skills and qualities she brings to her profession. That could be important information to know.

The bottom line here is that people will judge you by how much or how little they find out about you on the Internet. They don’t have the option of asking all your neighbors what sort of person you are, so they do the next best thing: they ask complete and total strangers what sort of person you are. Isn’t that the best kind of information you want people to use about you? No? It’s not? Then maybe you have some profiles to fill out, don’t you?