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Microsoft Exchange Server 03" Spam

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by kizzle

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I work for a moderately sized public library in the Systems Department. For a while now, our Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 has been sending gratuitous amounts of spam.
I'm sure yesterday, my supervisor and I made trips to the closet housing our firewall to restart it atleast 8 times due to being overloaded.
Ridiculous!

Our traffic will remain moderately bogged, while the load is usually almost maxed out. But depending on how many pc's are actively online and using the Internet, it easily shoots the load up to maxing out.

Any ideas for methods to get rid of it or control the amount of blocked spam more effectively?

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by bart777

That's how you get black listed.
First I would check the Exchange server and make sure that the Relay is turned OFF.

Now based on what you are saying there is also a possiblity that one of your PCs is infected and needs to be cleaned. If you have a corporate Virus scanner that is centraly controlled now would be a good time to tell it to do a sweep of allof the machines on the network. If not then you may need to draft help and have users update and run their local Vscan programs.

Now if you are looking for something to filter incoming SPAM then you might want to consider a Barracuda. These are a bit pricey but well worth the $$$. If not take a look at something like GFI mail essentials. Again, these will stop incoming, not outgoing SPAM.

Best of luck.

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