Re: barrcuda spam firewall eval

I've been meaning to reply back to this thread and since I had someone 
else send me an email today about the Cuda, I figured I would reply here.

We've been using a model 300 for a little over 2 years also. As others 
have pointed out, it's a great product for the price. Some of the more 
recent image spam was not getting blocked by Barracuda's 3.3 Firmware. 
This weekend I upgraded to their 3.4 firmware and it has been catching the 
image spam a lot better. It has some new "Fingerprint Analysis" to catch 
known spam that Barracuda has verified as spam.

Sometimes we will have some management people complaining about more spam 
getting through. But no product is going to be perfect. I will say that 
the latest firmware is a big step in the right direction for Barracuda. We 
have about 1,000 valid email accounts but we've rejected or quarantined 
32,000 messages so far today. It's really sad - and it doesn't count the 
15,000+ messages per day going to invalid recipients. So far today, 
though, we've allowed 12.8% of all email to get through to the users 
without being tagged. I believe it should still probably be closer to only 
9% or less getting through.

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
IBM Certified Associate Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
803.326.7270

domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
08/18/2006 02:33:26 PM:

I've been a Barracuda 300 user for 2 years.  For the money, it has been 
excellent product.



Lee Chambers
Manager, Technical Services
Consolidated Systems, Inc
lee.chambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Office 803-540-2215
Fax 803-744-6102
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