Tag Archives: Spam

Turning off NDRs (Non Delivery Reports) in Exchange 2007

Posted by dave on July 27, 2011 No comments

To turn of NDR’s in Exchange 2007, open up the Exchange Management Console, then go to: Organisation Configuration Hub Transport Remote Domains Default tab Message Format Uncheck ‘Allow non-delivery reports’

Installing ASSP Email Spam Filter on a Windows Server

Posted by dave on July 27, 2011 3 comments

In an attempt to combat spam, I have in the past tried various solutions, the most effective were the IP Block Lists within Exchange. However, since zen.spamhaus.org stopped working (anyone know why?), this hasn’t been quite so reliable. Another option …

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Preventing Out Of Office Messages being sent Externally

Posted by dave on July 25, 2011 No comments

Out of Office messages can be quite useful and most people tend to use them when they are on holiday etc. There are a few downsides though. Spammers can use them to verify correct email addresses and can also fire …

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Anti-Spam Solution with PFSense Country IP Block Plugin

Posted by dave on February 9, 2011 No comments

I currently us a few different tools combined to help combat spam. I have Exchange 2007 monitoring mails and also I also use block list providers within Exchange. Today I came across the Country Block plugin for PFSense which will …

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Implementing reCapcha on BlogEngine

Posted by dave on October 5, 2010 2 comments

Just recently I’ve been getting a tonne of spam, as this video shows, some cheeky monkey has written an application just to spam BlogEngine sites, how very dare they. Anyway, version 1.6.1 of BlogEngine comes with reCapcha as a built-in …

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Anti-Spam in Exchange 2007 with IP Block Lists

Posted by dave on August 18, 2010 No comments

Just recently I’ve had a massive influx of spam and it’s getting really annoying now. I have the anti-spam setup in Exchange 2007 and it’s worked quite well for a while, but now the spammers are getting cleverer and more …

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