Re: Trend Micro spam filter

Actually, I'm kind of surprised at your responses. I have been using a trial version of Trend Micro Scan Mail for the past 1.5 weeks and I am sorely disappointed with it's spam filtration. Out of the 9340 pieces of mail it has scanned, it has only flagged 645 as spam. I know that at least 2/3 of all the mail we receive is spam. I have tuned and tweaked everything I can, but the onslaught of spam persists. ScanMail appears to only have "Low, Medium, and High" as its spam filter levels. It does not allow you to filter by SCL.

Don't get me wrong, It's antivirus engine has been working beautifully but its antispam has me thinking twice about purchasing it.

~Joel~

Tsunami Australia wrote:
I've been using CSM for SMB here for only a short time (2 or so weeks) on our SBS server. And I would have to say it is the best I've come across yet. I've tried a few others, Symantec, GFI etc for bits and peices, but found them to hog resources, not protect the server (including spam scanning) and just behave generally unruly.

So now our only security products are CSM for SMB and TMAS for SMB, and I won't be looking back.

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"Andrew M. Saucci, Jr." wrote:

I finally had a chance to install Trend Micro's mail scanning
component on our SBS2003 and was pleasantly surprised at how effective the
spam filtering seems to be. How many of you are using that as your only spam
filter? Any other comments? Until now, when a client requests spam
filtering, we've been using a paid outside vendor for spam filtering before
it even reaches the Exchange server. We've been using Symantec Mail Security
on the inside, but as I've mentioned I've been looking at competitors
because I'm just too annoyed with Symantec's licensing procedures and the
software isn't so good that I need to stick with it at all costs. I do have
one guy paying $300-$400/month for spam filtering and "business continuity"
but he's starting to think the bill is too high (it was his idea originally)
and I'm thinking that Trend Micro C/S/M may be the way to go for him. (His
Symantec license expires in the next month or so.)



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