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Blocking Non-Delivery Report (NDR) spam with HTML Attachments

Friday, July 9th, 2010

We have posted a few helpful hints for users that are experiencing problems with Password Reset requests, UPS, Western Union, Youtube and other forms of spam. However, it looks like the spammers are altering the message to adapt to the changes that Postini and other vendors are making, so more updates to the filters are [...]

Youtube Spam with Malware Links

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Yesterday we highligthed an issue of spam from several different sources that when a user clicked on the included links they were brought to a site with malware on it. Today we have another version of this spam, and they are impersonating Youtube. For our Postini customers we have created a custom filter to block [...]

Postini Spam with Malware – Reset your “domain.com” password

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

We have started to see a wave of spam emails coming in to some of our Postini customers. This email has a customized subject with a claim that you need to reset your password. The link appears to be to your own domain, but in fact it goes to a site that [...]

ClueCentral Blacklist – RBL has gone down

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

We have received reports that the RBL (Real Time Blacklists) ClueCentral has gone down.  My Engineers have completed an investigation into the RBL and they discovered that stopped operating as of 1/21/2010. For more details of the site ceasing to operate, please view the Google Cache. At this time we have removed the Blacklist and [...]

CSMA Blacklist – Website Down

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

We have received reports that the RBL (Real Time Blacklists) CSMA has gone down.  My Engineers have completed an investigation and they discovered that the RBL CSMA isn’t dead, but their website is offline at this time. Please view the Google Cache of their website for more details. Our tool is working as it should however it appears [...]

SATOS Blacklist Disabled

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

We have received reports that the RBL (Real Time Blacklists) SATOS has gone down.  My Engineers have completed some investigation and they discovered that the RBL SATOS isn’t dead, but their website is offline. Please see the Google Cache for more details.
However, in the mean time, we are not able to get reliable results from [...]

New MxToolBox Website Released

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Thank you to all that tested out our Beta website in the last few weeks. We have officially released our NEW website with a new layout and even better and bigger tools! We affectionately call our tool the Super Tool as it combines all the tools into one Super Tool.

About the SuperTool!
All of your MX record, [...]

Warning – Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

What does Warning – Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner mean?
The short answer is that the reverse IP address name is not contained in the server HELO or EHLO banner.  In the example below, the string “someotherdomain.com” is not found anywhere in the server banner, which is reporting “example.com“.  This is only a warning, [...]

Zimbra Security Vulnerability Report Update: July 2, 2009

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Zimbra has issued an update on the potential security risk found in versions 4.5 and earlier. MxToolBox recommends that all Zimbra users read the below notification and make the recommended changes.

Greetings ,
This is a follow-up communication after yesterday’s initial security alert and contains additional information and resources for ZCS Network [...]

Free Server Monitoring Tool – Server Alerts Down

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

We greatly appreciate the feedback from our Free Monitoring Tool users regarding the issue of Server Alerts not being delivered. We are currently working on it and it should be fixed shortly.
This is just one of the features included in the Free Monitoring Tool and we encourage our customers to continue using the product. Please [...]