by Joel Snyder
Take this quiz to assess your knowledge of how to fight spam and viruses. In order to successfully pass the quiz, you will need to attend the webcast Spam and virus mitigation strategies and read the technical paper Oops! Exposing the biggest blunders for fighting spam and viruses. Click on the answer link for the correct answer and more information.
1.) The term "cocktail" has been used to describe an antispam technique. What is it?
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2.) Is it better to run antispam at the external MTA or on the e-mail client (such as Outlook)?
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3.) A company recently announced that its antispam product has no false positives. How is this possible?
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4.) You have designed an antivirus strategy that says that all messages with viruses in them are deleted, while all messages without viruses in them are passed on. What have you forgotten?
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5.) When mail is received at an SMTP MTA, it is not always known whether the recipient is valid. If, later on, the recipient is found to be invalid, it's probably because the message is spam. What's wrong with simply deleting that message?
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