GFI Software Announces Top 10 Malware Threats for August
September 3, 2010 – 10:32 am | No Comment

GFI Software Announces Top 10 Malware Threats for August
The top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of August are:
1. Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT 25.11%
2. Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen 4.23%
3. Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra 3.61%
4. INF.Autorun (v) 3.27%
5. Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 …

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Common reasons why content updates fail in GFI MailEssentials (Part 2 of 3)
September 2, 2010 – 10:19 am | No Comment
Common reasons why content updates fail in GFI MailEssentials (Part 2 of 3)

In my last post I performed some pre-checks to identify the reason for the update failure. I found out that the update fails permanently, the license key is however valid and the licensed users have …

Common Reasons why Content Updates Fail in GFI MailEssentials (Part 1 of 3)
August 30, 2010 – 3:20 pm | No Comment
Common Reasons why Content Updates Fail in GFI MailEssentials (Part 1 of 3)

Common reasons why content updates fail in GFI MailEssentials (Part 1 of 3)There can be various reasons why one or more GFI MailEssentials Anti-Spam modules may fail to download the latest updates files or to …

How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 5)
August 23, 2010 – 3:08 pm | No Comment
How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 5)

In the previous post emails have been copied from one to another database. The active spam retention policy ensures that emails which have been marked as spam will not be stored permanently in the new …

How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 4)
August 18, 2010 – 3:45 pm | No Comment
How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 4)

In my previous post I prepared the first steps required to move all emails except spam emails into the new GFI MailArchiver Archive Store. For this I have created a new Archive Store in GFI …

How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 3)
August 9, 2010 – 2:41 pm | No Comment
How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 3)

My previous post explained how an individual spam retention policy can be created with GFI MailArchiver. A spam retention policy should prevent that GFI MailArchiver archives further spam emails from the journaling mailbox into the …

How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 2)
August 6, 2010 – 12:30 pm | No Comment
How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 2)

My previous post went through the steps required to avoid GFI MailArchiver archiving spam emails from the journaling mailbox into the active GFI MailArchiver Archive Store.
Currently, I have temporarily disabled the current “mails servers to …

How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 1)
August 2, 2010 – 2:31 pm | 2 Comments
How to stop archiving useless spam (Part 1)

In a routine check you may have discovered that your database is growing too fast. With further investigation you may have found out that GFI MailArchiver is also archiving unwanted spam emails.
In a three part …

Top 15 Most Vulnerable Applications
July 28, 2010 – 1:40 pm | 11 Comments
Top 15 Most Vulnerable Applications

Top 15 Most Vulnerable Applications
Which were the most vulnerable applications in the first half of 2010?
Below are the results after processing vulnerability data feeds as of July 7, 2010 from National Vulnerability Database (NVD), which …

GFI LANguard adds new applications to its patch management list
July 26, 2010 – 6:30 pm | 3 Comments
GFI LANguard adds new applications to its patch management list

Apple QuickTime, Adobe Air and Opera Browser among the New Applications That Can Be Patched Using GFI LANguard
GFI LANguard 9.5 was launched at the end of May with a new and very important feature for …

GFI MailSecurity™ 2010: LinkScanner & FIFA World Cup 2010 malware
July 19, 2010 – 12:59 pm | One Comment
GFI MailSecurity™ 2010: LinkScanner & FIFA World Cup 2010 malware

The FIFA World Cup 2010has come and gone; however, spammers and malware writers are still exploiting this global event as happened previously with the Icelandic Volcano eruption.
One particular targeted attack related to the World Cup …