Spam Spam Spam…

Sounds like a Monty Python skit, but it’s not.

We have had a very reliable Spam filter in place since around 2005, Barracuda has served us well, but is its days numbered?

There is an offering from Microsoft now, we already use their Anti-Virus and it works well, so is it time to make the leap into another Microsoft Product? The price is right, we have so many other MS products that it seems to make sense. It would tie into the Anti Virus, would be the new Gateway, it would server the servers as well as the desktops.

The is past day or so our Barracuda has been acting out a little, I think there is anything wrong with it, I just think it is overloaded. All is fine until there is a glitch, such as one of our Domain Controllers going a-wall and causing Spam to build up causing a rather dramatic slow up as it works though processing all the backlogged emails.

So over the next little while we will do some reading on the new “Forefront” offering and see if it will work for us.

Stay tuned.