Ultimate anti-spam guide: 11 products tested


Contents
Introduction
 BitDefender
 Clearswift
 CA eTrust
 GFI
 IronPort
 MailGuard
 McAfee
 MessageLabs
 NetIQ
 Network Box
 Symantec
 Specifications
 Editor's Choice
 About RMIT
 How we tested
McAfee SpamKiller & WebShield

McAfee has both bases covered with software and hardware e-mail filtering solutions in their stables. For this review, instead of adding yet another software product we selected one of the McAfee appliances.

For interest's sake we also ran up their software package and were pleasantly surprised to find that both technologies employed virtually the same user interfaces, therefore for large or distributed organisations looking for large and small e-mail servers to be covered McAfee may well have a scalable software or hardware solution to suit with relatively unified interfaces. Certainly something to consider.

Installation of the appliance once connected up and turned on is very simple, taking no more than 15 minutes to configure. Multiple network interfaces provide an added level of security and advanced routing in the configuration allows quite a number of different permutations to be used depending on the environment the equipment is being deployed in.

There is a very good amount of logging and reporting provided as well as other features such as content filtering and antivirus protection.

Overall a very well designed robust appliance which would suit most SMEs looking to remove their mailserver from the frontline.

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Product McAfee SpamKiller for McAfee WebShield 3000 series appliances
Price 3110 AU$1996, 3200 AU$6935, 3300 AU$13,895.
Vendor McAfee
Phone 1800 644 646
Web www.mcafee.com.au
 
Interoperability
Works with any mail server.
Futureproofing ½
Very good range of features provided and good reporting.
ROI ½
Attractive price for 100+ mailboxes.
Service
12 month warranty.
Rating ½

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Talkback 4 comments

    Where can I buy Symantec Brigh ...Anonymous -- 23/04/05

    Where can I buy Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.01? please

    We trialled both Mailguard &am ...Anonymous -- 01/06/05

    We trialled both Mailguard & MessageLabs.

    MessageLabs is seemingly run out of the UK. To make a simple change required talking to someone in the UK, faxing a form to the UK, and waiting for them to be available.

    Not ideal.

    RE: MailGuard propaganda posts Anonymous -- 21/02/08 (in reply to #120117717)

    Geez, i wonder which of the two firms the anonymous poster is aligned to?? MessageLabs have a sydney office, have far a greater number of and far larger australian client base than MailGuard, and have never experienced the service outages that plague MailGuards poorly conceived and architected systems. Ever heard of availability & capacity management?? How bout mis-leading and deceptive conduct, alla "100% uptime" as is claimed in your marketing. Sub 25 seats, where you dont rely that heavily on your email, use MailGuard as they are cheap. > 50 seats, use MessageLabs, or Postini or Microsoft (whom acquired Frontbridge in 2006). You get what you pay for afterall.

    Messagelabs propaganda post Anonymous -- 02/09/09 (in reply to #320095926)

    Geez, I wonder which company the above anonymous poster is aligned to!

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