Does Microsoft's Antigen stop email spam?

Answer by  worker9013 (7)

By rolling up several software fixes and integrating the Cloudmark engine into version 9. 0 of Antigen, it is intended to reduce the amount of spam received on your Exchange server, but it is virtually impossible to eliminate all spam without imposing strict restrictions on filters that can potentially block out wanted email in addition to spam.

Answer by  worker8121 (244)

It helps catch spam at the host level, it will still come to your network but it will not get opened or passed onto your clients. It does have false positive from time to time so you will need to verify that it didn't filter out valid emails, this is pretty painless.

Answer by  Blip (313)

The software is capable of reducing a significant amount of spam from an Exchange inbox. Proper updates and software utilizations must be configured to achieve this goal. The level of protection is specified by the user. Tinkering with preferences cautiously would give a user an idea of what they wish to eliminate.

Answer by  charu (23)

Microsoft is providing antigen stop email in package 2. It works in appropriate contents against spam, worms, virus. It protects the servers.It works with multiple scanners and giving better security for the computer. Make your exchange environment easy and downloading more safer.This protects your messaging and collaboration servers from unwanted contents.

Answer by  angelsmom (11)

Microsoft's Antigen definitely is known to stop email spam that will give you the protection that you need. Furthermore, it is known to protect users from viruses and inappropriate content.

Answer by  seeyamd01 (67)

Yes, it is designed to recognize and filter spam. The accuracy of the recognition pattern matching is very dependent upon frequency, industry standard black lists and technology support provided by on site staff for adding content filters on non standard spam traffic.

Answer by  tjh1234 (362)

The Microsoft Antigen Spam Manager feature within the Antigen product uses the third party "SpamCure" spam filtering engine from Mail-Cure to filter SMTP traffic on either an Exchange Server or at a mail choke point within a network to try and flag or remove spam emails from passing into an enterprise.

Answer by  gigo (1706)

MS Antigen consists out of three components: collaboration server, security management products and EMail server. The last named has an anti spam module.

Answer by  sonicfoundation (2597)

Microsoft's Antigen is an email secutity suite that does attempt to stop spam email. Nothing can stop spam completely, but it does a good job.

Answer by  japratt (1687)

It does actually stop certain different types of spam mail from different types of companies. Some other types of junk or spam mail may also find a way to get through.