An Exchange System policy provides a new way to apply common settings to servers, public folder stores and mailbox stores for all or selected objects in an Exchange administrative group. This article explains in detail how to implement a mailbox store policy.

A new Netsky worm variant is quickly making the rounds. The new variant searches more file types for email addresses to harvest, sends itself out to those addresses and spoofs the From addresses to obscure which machine sent the message.

Sender Permitted From, or SPF, is a new protocol that works in conjunction with existing email protocols to insure that a person sending an email on behalf of a given address has the right to do so.

This guide is designed to provide you with essential information about how to harden your Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 environment. In addition, this guide includes strategies for combating spam, viruses, and other external threats to your Exchange 2003 messaging system.

KnockOut is a free Microsoft Outlook companion that allows you to easily monitor the state of Outlook on your computer. See the KnockOut site for more complete information.

A new variant of MyDoom targets the web sites of Microsoft and song swapping foe Recording Industry Association of America.

This brief from Internet Magazine tell us how Sendmail is launching a sender authentication plug-in which is hoped will combat email fraud and spam, while Microsoft is working on a similar product.

RSA Security Inc. announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop a version of its SecurID token for the Windows operating system.

Microsoft has begun beta-testing a uilt-in virus scanner feature for its Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) that will be included in the final product in mid-2004.

European regulators intend to leave it to Microsoft to work out exactly how to meet demands to release more programming code.