So Far No Improvement in Spam Protection

Not seeing any improvement so far with the spam protection in Blog comments, despite the new BC upgrade yesterday that started Akismet spam protection. Right after the update, I reinitialized my settings in Comments to require Comment Approval and the new Spam Protection parameter, then spent a LONG time marking nearly 800 previous comments submitted in past months as Spam.
But yesterday and continuing today, my blogs are still getting hit with the same amount of spam as in the past, and of course, it's from the same pirates who have been sending this stuff all along: PayDay loans etc.
For the record, it has to be a robot submitting this spam because on my comment form I do not display the Website field so humans cannot fill it out (since they can't see it) but still it's getting filled in, so it has to be a robot submitting this stuff that is reading the HTML stream and ignorning my CSS display:none on the website field.
Frustrating...hoping something is going to improve because all my client sites are equally infected with spam... clients are commenting to me that they are worried that the BC environment is not secure and are now worried about financial transaction security as well as a result of all the spamming.

Hi all,
we've released the new spam protection features.
I've also created a doc on this forum explaining the best practices on how to avoid SPAM:http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2882
All feedback is welcome.
Dragos M.

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Level of spam protection

I remember once changing the level of spam protection in my Verizon email. There was a slider. I increased the protection to a slightly higher setting. Now, unfortunately, a lot of my legitimate stuff goes into spam. I click on the legitimate message (which winds up in the spam folder) and then click "not spam." But that doesn't seem to help with the next email from the same sender. Does that slider still exist? Can I lower the level of protection? I forgot how I got to it. And, if it doesn't exist, how can I tell my spam protection to "ease up" a little bit and accept mail into my inbox from more senders?

john8147 wrote:
I remember once changing the level of spam protection in my Verizon email. There was a slider. I increased the protection to a slightly higher setting. Now, unfortunately, a lot of my legitimate stuff goes into spam. I click on the legitimate message (which winds up in the spam folder) and then click "not spam." But that doesn't seem to help with the next email from the same sender. Does that slider still exist? Can I lower the level of protection? I forgot how I got to it. And, if it doesn't exist, how can I tell my spam protection to "ease up" a little bit and accept mail into my inbox from more senders?
There's no slider for Verizon's SpamDetector that I know of.
If you are consistently having issues with the same senders though, you can always add them to your Safe Senders list.
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Spam Protection for Email showing Critical for Exchange Server 2007 after installing Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange

Hi there,
I have SBS 2008, and I have recently installed Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 7.5 but when I take a look on Windows SBS Console under Security, it shows "Spam Protection for Email Critical Exchange Server 2007" However,
when I open the SMSME it shows running well with no problem..
Any Suggestions???
Thanks

Hi,
Would you please let me confirm whether all functions (which are related to Exchange Server) run as normal? Just
a confirmation, thanks for your understanding.
Please run
SBS BPA and check if find relevant issues. In addition, please refer to GaryD9’s suggestion in following thread and check if can help you.
SBS
2008 & Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange - SBS Console Error
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
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How to test if Spam protection with Forefront for Exchange 2010 works

Hi there.
Installed forefront for exchange 2010 on Exchange Edge server.
We have tested virus protection with creating EICAR, but the question is, is there a way to check if SPAM Works fine, and how to?
with best regards
bostjanc

Hi bostjanc,
Since this is an issue on the Forefront side, I suggest ask Forefront Forum for help so that you can get more professional suggestions. For your convenience:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/forefront/en-US/home?forum=FOPE
However, based on my knowledge, use the EICAR antivirus test file is the only built-in method to check whether the Anti-Spam configured correctly.
You can try to send some test spams to your Exchange server for testing, even if this is a stupid method : )
Thanks
Mavis Huang
TechNet Community Support

Email adresses - Spam protection - Options

I do understand the tight security and anti SPAM policy on the ePrint services, to prevent abusive use and prevent complaining users about wasting paper and ink etc.
However, since there is an option to only allow printing from 'allowed senders', it would be very VERY useful to have an option, combined with the allowed senders, to allow more that one email address in the 'send to' part of the email. Sure, make it a button with 20 disclaimers and such, but please HP, make this a selectable option. I really, _really_ like to be able to use the ePrint services with forwarded emails.

fdutch2000,
Are you referring to enabling use of an auto-forwarding email account to forward emails on to HP ePrint (I too haven't gotten this to work... at least not in my trials using an auto-forwarding Gmail account...). I agree it would be convenient to enable this use case.
Or are you refering to the desire to forward your emails (from your email account) directly to an HP ePrint printer's email address? When I am doing the forwarding, this use case works for me (though its still true that the only address in the to: or cc: fields needs to be the printer's email address - I believe this avoids others unintentionally printing to my printer if they "reply all" and are on my whitelist....)
Note: When sending email to my printer, I can add additional addresses in the BCC field if desired... this also avoids the risk of unintentional printing via "reply all"...
Speaking for myself, not my employer Hewlett Packard

How can I improve my spam detection iPhone 3 gs

why does my iPhone let spam through that Mail blocks?

you can choose to restore from the older phone when you connect your iphone5 by cable and start itunes on the computer and navigate to the iphone and click the restore buttom then you can choose the iphone3's backup
or you can google
iphone backup restore sms
there are many third party programs which let you backup and restore sms's from iphones

Improver access to protected user account mail messages via spotlight

What happens:
Using spotlight from USER1 finds "private" email messages in USER2. Clicking on the message opens it in a mail window, giving USER1 access to mail in folders that is has no access to. Searching for something benign like "a" provides access to all of USER2's mail. Extenuating circumstances below.
State verification:
1. Using "show all" within spotlight makes it possible to toggle between "USER1" and "This Mac" to verify that the message is not on "USER1."
2. Macintosh HD/Users/USER2 shows the folders to have the "no access" folder icon. This is confirmed with "Get Info"
3. Within "Get Info" window for folder (USER1 active), the Privilege correctly indicates that only USER2 had Read or Write access
4. Within "Get Info" window for folder (USER2 active), the Privilege correctly indicates that only USER2 had Read or Write access
5. All is the same if USER2 is logged out.
6. Within "Terminal," access permissions verify that USER1 cannot 5.
MacBook:USER2 USER1$ ls -ltotal 0
drwx------+ 6 USER2 staff 204 Dec 19 22:29 Desktop
drwx------+ 26 USER2 staff 884 Dec 18 17:32 Documents
drwx------+ 4 USER2 staff 136 Dec 19 22:26 Downloads
drwx------+ 34 USER2 staff 1156 Dec 18 09:40 Library
drwx------+ 3 USER2 staff 102 Dec 12 16:32 Movies
drwx------+ 3 USER2 staff 102 Dec 12 16:32 Music
MacBook:USER2 USER1$ cd Library/
-bash: cd: Library/: Permission denied
drwx------+ 5 USER2 staff 170 Dec 13 12:22 Pictures
drwx---r-x+ 5 USER2 staff 170 Dec 12 16:32 Public
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 USER2 staff 170 Dec 12 16:32 Sites
Extenuating Circumstances:
As best as I can tell at this point, only mailboxes/messages that have been imported have this problem. I have done a number of spotlight searches on mail recently received: these messages are found when searched within USER2, but are not found when searched within USER1, and therefore cannot be opened.

Additional Information:
The message files: Macintosh_HD/User/USER2/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/FOLDERS*/*Mailboxes*.mbox/Messages/.emlx
...and some containing folders appear to have access permissions that are inconsistent with the higher level folders. In short, during the import process, these files and folders were given the wrong access permissions.
Went into terminal an manually chmod'ed them.
All now appears to be working correctly.
Since spotlight has access to the file locations directly, it can get to these files and messages even through the directory cannot be accessed through other means.
[This is either a bug in the MAIL Import function that sets the wrong access permissions, the spotlight program for allowing access to a file that has the wrong permission, but is within a directory hierarchy that should not allow access, or more likely, both]
phuss

Spam sent "as if" from me

This probably doesn't go in the IMac thread.. but too many choices to search for where to put it..
Using MAIL, a day ago received some 250 "delivery failure/ daemon" in my in box, but I did not send the messages; I don't think they went to my contacts / friends either, because some one would have alerted me.
This AM received a few more, and see that my internet provider closed my email account for spam. Worked all this out, but can someone explain to me what kind of email intrustion just happened. No one has my password; no one else uses my computer(s); Is this a virus on my computer, my email? (home network is all mac);
I have Norton (not the latest Norton due to firewall issues, but the one before that, but with latest virus definitions, on one computer and it did block something yesterday/ Clam Nav is on laptop, but it did not alert me to anything . Anyone know what happend --do I have a security breach on my computers/ and or devices?

Sharon Chard-Yaron wrote:
John-- thanks.. can you explain what is server-side-spam protection?
Basically, it is software that resides on an email server to intelligently identify and eradicate spam before it ever reaches you. I don't know what Earthlink uses, if any. If they do not, or if it is ineffective, the account will eventually become clogged with spam, either sent from you (apparently) or sent to you.
For example, in the distant past I used Yahoo mail. It rapidly became completely useless because they did not incorporate any spam protection. It rapidly became so burdened with spam that I had no choice but to abandon the account. 1000+ spam messages every day.
Yahoo has improved markedly since then, but of course we have better options now.

Snow Leopard Server doesn't seem to be filtering spam....

Hi everyone-
For some reason, lots of spam keeps getting through my mail server even though I have Junk Filtering turned on and set at 2 hits (pretty close to "Aggressive"). I also have RBLs (sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.org, and bl.spamcop.net) setup but that hasn't seem to help much.
Below is a screenshot of my Filters tab.
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9308/screenshot20100501at902.png
Thanks!

Hi justinmang,
You can get a big improvement in spam filtering by turning on Language Guesser in SpamAssassin. (The accepted language settings do not work until this is changed)
Open a terminal window on the server and edit /etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre
Change the line: *#loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::TextCat*
to this: *loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::TextCat*
Also train SpamAssassin - see page 36-37 of http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/MailServicesAdminv10.6.pdf
Hope this helps,
Boddie

Satellite P70-A-11V - does HDD protection work without accelerometer?

Hi all,
I am new here.
I already made another post. In brief, I am pretty much expert in Toshiba Satellite laptops, but my new one, Satellite P70-A-11V, a high-end professional laptop, had some issues. It came with Windows 8, which I upgraded to 8.1. Unfortunately, the system degraded so bad that all pendrives made it crash. I connected my Toshiba camcorder to it, and it also crashed the laptop.
The search indexing was not working outside the C: drive. The pointer of any optical mouse started to freeze for seconds on the screen.
This latter I believe was due to underpowered USB ports.
So, I really had no choice after 2 total system restores, and installed Windows 7 Enterprise x64, SP1. The OS looks almost ok, but I still have problems, and one of these is that however I try to install the accelerometer utilities, there is no driver.
I tried the one for Windows 8 x64, but it just does not appear on the services list.
I found that the HDD protection utility was also stopped, and I searched this forum, and someone told that the Intel Rapid Storage technology should be uninstalled. I did so, and my HDD protection is running... but I am not sure if it is effective!
I remember that with the Windows 8.1, the utility always showed a message on the upper right corner: Vibration is detected etc, that the disk is temporarily shut down etc.
It was associated with some high pitch noise indicating that the disk was indeed stopped. Now I can shake the laptop, but no message pops up, no sound is heard.
I checked all the checkboxes at the HDD protection interface to indicate if there is vibration, but so far nothing. The HDD protection is up and running, but in the absence of accelerometer utility, the HDD protection just does not know when to act.
Am I right? Can Toshiba medicate this?
All answers are greatly appreciated.

Hi
Toshiba drivers and tools released for Win 8 or Win 8.1 are not fully comparable with the Toshiba software available for Win 7 OS.
Some drivers and tools which are available for Win 8 dont exist for Win 7 system.
For example; the Accelerometer Utilities or HDD Protection Utility were released especially for Win 8 / Win 8.1 system and are not available for Win 7.
But for Win 7 you will find the Toshiba VAP (value added package) and this package installs a range of important utilities which are essential component of Windows system and this VAP is required to make the other TOSHIBA original programs work properly.
Therefore you should install the VAP as first Toshiba tool to ensure that other software like HDD/SSD Alert Utility or PC Health Monitor

Is this spam or real?

This came as email, is it real?
The Classic version of Verizon Mail will be replaced by our new version on 25th Oct 2014. So it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access.
When you upgrade your Verizon Mail
Your email service won't be affected and you'll keep all your old contacts, folders and messages. Plus you'll get:
faster email
the latest spam protection
unlimited email storage.
How you can upgrade your account
Click on the link below and follow the instructions. You'll also need to agree to some new terms and conditions. CLICK HERE TO UPGRADE YOUR ACCOUNT
Thanks for choosing Verizon,
Lowell C. McAdam
Verizon Communications, CEO
The date has past, but I worry.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Gfmueden,
This is 100% fake and you should not click the upgrade link.
Thanks,
Todd

Spam in email sub-account

I do not use any explicit spam protection tools other than what comes automatically with my Verizon DSL email service. My primary user account gets no spam, but a sub-account is flooded with spam daily. How can I extend anti-spam protection to the sub-account? Thanx...

I do not use any explicit spam protection tools other than what comes automatically with my Verizon DSL email service. My primary user account gets no spam, but a sub-account is flooded with spam daily. How can I extend anti-spam protection to the sub-account? Thanx...

Apex Improvements from 1.5 to 2.0

I'm putting together a solid business case for the benefits of moving our client from Apex 1.5 to Apex 2.0. (Think in terms of how an upgrade allows us to do more for our client).
I've been hunting around Oracle and the forums to find a list of the fixes/improvements/limitations that have changed since Apex v 1.5.1.00.12.
Our clients tend to have very large data sets which makes reporting very challenging due to the limitations in their version of Apex.
Some examples I've found in the Forums include:
- Increase in the LOV limit from 10,000 to 1 million.
- More than 60 generic report columns are allowed on a report.
- 100 Item page-limit has been lifted.
- CSV Export limitation of 10000 rows has been fixed.
- Improved Session State Protection (security is important to our clients)
Does anyone happen to have any material (whitepapers, webpages, etc.) that can help me in this endeavor?
Thanks in advance,
Nathan

Hello Nathan,
I believe that from a client point of view, what Carl mentioned about " hooks for DHTML / AJAX functionality which if used right can greatly improve user functionality" is the most important thing regarding upgrade to the latest version. DHTML and AJAX allow you to populate/update items on your page without rendering it over and over again, prior to submit, and allow you more flexibility and more options then in previous versions. That can significantly improve your UI, friendliness and performance. For the user, it is much more important then a list of some technical improvements, that some of them has no bearing on his daily using experience.
You can demonstrate some of the DHTML/AJAX possible usage, using Carl's examples on http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:37 .
Regards,
Arie.

How tight is this password protection?

Hi
I'm looking for a little clarification on whether my password
security is
robust enough.
I am using asp/vbscript on a windows server
I always POST variables from the form to the asp script, I
then use
something like vMYPIN=request.form("pin_number") to get the
pin that the
user typed
in. I then use some sql to see if that pin exists in the
database, and
if it does then i use session("PIN")=True to set the session
variable.
On subsequent pages the first line is if(session("PIN") then
page is ok
else redirect to logon page.
I hope that covers what i do, would really appreciate some
feedback on
whether this is a good and secure method.

Many thanks for this that has certainly helped me a lot
"Lionstone" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "dave" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> it's a mysql database of delegate data.
>>
>> I've been reading things about sql injection attacks
and have become a
>> little anxious about my site security.
>>
>> Are my methods secure or what should i be doing?
>>
>> Thanks for your reply
>
> This type of security and SQL injection are not really
related.
> In any case, session variables are your best option
since they reside on
> the server. If someone has server access, then you've
got bigger problems
> to solve.
>
> If the user needs some sort of username/password
combination, then it's
> best to have an SSL certificate and to use https during
login. If you use
> normal http, then the username/password are transmitted
in plain text.
> Nothing is perfect, but a combination of https and
session-based security
> is about as good as you'll get on the web.
>
> Rather than just check for somevar=true, consider
storing the username in
> a session variable (which is what DW's log in user
behavior does). That
> way, should you desire, you can even tell who did what
instead of just
> that "a logged in user" did something.
>
> As far as web security goes, protecting against SQL
injection is at least
> as important as controlling access. Beating SQL
injection is simple, but
> don't confuse simple with "very little work." There is
only one rule -
> validate, validate, validate. Client-side (javascript)
validation is
> useless for security purposes. You can use it as a
front-line option so
> the user doesn't have to wait for the form to submit if
they've made an
> honest mistake, but that's all it's good for. Validate
again on the
> server. Validation consists of two parts:
> 1. Data type
> 2. Data domain
>
> Data type is easy; you can use isNumeric, isDate, etc.
Data domain will
> take more thought. This is where you protect against
people entering
> in -1 for age, for instance, or Jan 31, 1799 as their
birthdate (and no,
> you can't rely on your form since anybody can build a
form that submits to
> YOUR web site). Also check string lengths - if a text
box allows up to 50
> characters, check the length of the input to make sure
it's no more than
> that.
>
> Last step - use prepared statements for your SQL. This
often means stored
> procedures, but doesn't have to. DW with the 8.02
updater will use
> prepared statements, so look at the code generated by
any of the server
> behaviors for the basics.
>
> Again, nothing and nobody is perfect, so make sure that
the account used
> to access the database has minimal permissions - exactly
what it needs,
> and not one drop more. I prefer to leverage stored
procedures for this;
> if the web account is allowed to take an action, then
there's a procedure
> for it. The account has zero permissions on any tables
and cannot do
> anything besides execute those procedures I've given
permission for.
>
> Hope that gets you started. :)
>

Problems with spam filtering (specific and general)

I I am getting messages coming through that are OBVIOUS spam (phishing attempts from [email protected] and
[email protected] saying the at the account was frozen). The address is wrong in the bottom, the domains are obviously wrong, and we've seen these repeatedly. And yet they keep coming through. I was actually told that because it was marked as
NSPM by the filter it should have been delivered, but I'm appalled that it isn't getting marked as spam at all.
I was given a few options for creating manual rules (well, I can do that all day, but then why have a service?) and then reset my SPF and other content delivery conditions for future monitoring. But really what I want is a definite answer as to why something
that any person can look at and recognize is not getting picked up. It's pretty embarrassing to have moved to Office 365 and had spam protection get notably worse than it was under Postini. And then to have support tell me that it got delivered because
it was marked as NSPM ("I know it got marked that, but how in the world did that happen?"). We've been getting these off and on for months.
My more general complaint is how spam whitelists and blacklists are maintained. They are one step up from having to manually edit text files (which would actually be easier to do since I could search those easily). Again- this can't be the best Microsoft
has to offer, and given the global issue that spam has become I can't believe they aren't making this better more quickly.
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Hi,
Do you mean your client is list in the spam list by your Exchange Server?
If so, I think the most efficient way is to contact the Exchange Administrator to check the spam list.
Thanks,
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