AntiSPAM

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Anti-SPAM

• Barracuda
• More Automated and User-Managed Features

06/01/07
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Spam Control Functions

• Automated Functions
• Email will go through a filter
• Quarantines junk mail
• Daily report of quarantined messages
• User-Managed Functions
• Access quarantined messages
• Classify (train) messages / Spam toolbar
• Whitelist / Blacklist email addresses

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Vocabulary

• Quarantine
• Your Spam Inbox for suspicious messages
• Whitelist / Blacklist
• Safe senders / Prohibited senders
• Bayesian Database
• Learning engine used to classify (train) messages
• Becomes more effective over time

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Barracuda - Anti SPAM

• First-time Account Information Welcome

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Your Spam Quarantine Summary
Access to your Spam Quarantine Inbox
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Barracuda Spam Quarantine Inbox

• View this log daily
• Classify as many messages as you can
• Train it improve spam identification based on
  your Spam / Not Spam rules

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Preferences White/Black Lists

• Allows or blocks delivery
• Enter a full address, and that specific user is
  identified (johndoe_at_yahoo.com)
• Enter just the domain, and all subdomains get
  included (yahoo.com, support.yahoo.com, etc.)
• To delete an entry, click the trash can icon

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Preferences Quarantine Settings

• Enable Quarantine
• Yes delivers messages to your Quarantine Inbox
• No delivers quarantined messages to your
  general Inbox
• Quarantine Notification
• The frequency of your summary reports

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Preferences Spam Settings

• Enable or disable Spam scanning
• Edit your default spam scoring levels
• Select No and Save your Changes
• Bayesian Learning
• More effective over time
• Active once 200 of each are classified
• System uses your rules to determine how closely
  messages match as spam.

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Outlook Spam Toolbar

• Classifying this email as Spam
• trains Barracudas Bayesian Learning database to
  identify future emails with similar content
• Classifying email as Spam
• relates to email content
• does not affect the Sender

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Outlook Spam Toolbar Options
Tools Menu Options Spam Firewall

• Can be configured to automatically
• Whitelist email addresses associated with Sent
  messages and new contacts
• Move Spam-declared messages to Deleted Items
  folder
• Whitelist the From addresses within Not-Spam

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Anti-Spam Re-cap

• Suspicious email is delivered to your Quarantine
  Inbox
• You receive a daily Quarantine Summary email
• Deliver, Whitelist or Delete
• Whitelist / Blacklist senders
• Classifying messages as Spam or Not Spam trains
  Barracuda how to identify future email
• Effective after 200 of each have been classified

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