How does your company deal with SPAM?

We use surf control as the primary spam control and then we have Kaspersky for Exchange 2003 that has built in anti-spam to help with stuff that beats Surf control.
 
Each of our financial analysts (there are about 12 now) get around 1-2000 messages a day - some a lot more, so you can imagine how many emails in general we have to cope with

All our emails come through a company called messagelabs who filter out any spam and also anything with huge attachments or with jpg's as standard

We have a black and safe list which are quite configurable, either with ip address, domain or full address and anything over 10MB cant be recieved or sent ( very rare occasions where we have to deal with anything over this) and anything with a banned attachment actually gets delivered to an Admin account
 
howiepoohs said:
We make fritters and have it with beans and fried spuds
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totally off topic but do you remember this:

Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!
 
The company where I am at the moment use messagelabs, and I must say they have been very good. I've never had anything come through.

My company before hand used Surfcontrol email filteron their email gateway. Again it worked quite well but it does involve more setting up and managing, whereas messagelabs do everything for you.
 
I think the Messagelabs spam filter is Symantec Brightmail, as was IronPort engine just before they got bought by Cisco , and the engine embedded in 75% of the top US ISPs.

So if you dont want to run it as a managed service you can buy it as a software licence from Symantec.
 
We use Hexamail Guard - Would absolutely recommend em hands down - their Tech support is outstanding - based in the UK too.
 
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