A little bit off topic but...A general question about SPAM/Antivirus software?

From: Jody Sedrick (helpdesk.NOSPAM_at_hallfarley.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:37:01 -0800

After trying a number of products I finally settled on
GFI's Mail Essentials. It uses a bayesian filtering
mechanism that looks at your outgoing and incoming emails
and then draws a statistical computation on what emails
are spam based on that comparison. You can also set up
white list and black list which is a huge benefit. I have
all Black listed emails automatically deleted. It also
has keyword filter, header malformed filter and a few
others. I've been running it for two months and am very
pleased.

I have spam routed to a SPAM email folder that I peruse
through to make sure I don't get any false positives. On
monday we had 1863 spam emails and only 2 false
positives.

Best of luck

>-----Original Message-----
>Group,
>
>There is a lot of software "out there" to prevent
viruses and SPAM for
>Exchange servers.
>What are really the big differences between these
products? E.g. are there
>any categories, functions etc that you really SHOULD
have /donīt ever need
>but not all products offer etc?
>
>Also, how is the main functionality in a SPAM prevention
software working to
>decide whatīs spam and whats not?
>
>/Peter
>
>
>.
>

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