Over the holiday break a new spam filter called MailFrontier was installed. We hope you have noticed fewer junk emails in your inbox. The MailFrontier device will protect MCC against threats such as spam, phishing, viruses, and directory harvest attacks*.
To view your emails identified as “junk” by the MailFrontier spam filter, just go to https://spam.monroecc.edu/login.html;jsessionid=A4889E8E00942B7F2089D6E1FC9A92CE"spam.monroecc.edu and enter your user name and password. This will take you to your Junk Box. You can then choose to delete or “unjunk” (allow the email to pass to your inbox) any of the filtered emails. Junk emails (not otherwise deleted or “unjunked” by you) will be stored in your Junk Box and deleted after 90 days. The college’s default level of anti-spam aggressiveness is set at Medium (3 out of 5). You can adjust the level of anti-spam aggressiveness for your email account by clicking on Anti-Spam Techniques and selecting a level from Mild (1) to Strong (5).
Please contact the ETS Help Line if you require any assistance. Dial HELP ( ext. 4357) option #1 while on campus or 292-2000, ext. 4357 if calling from off campus.
*So you know
- spam is "junk" email sent to bulk email accounts to promote products or services
- phishing is a form of spam used to deceive you into disclosing your credit card numbers, bank account information, social security numbers, passwords and any other personal information
- viruses are self-replicating programs that spread by inserting copies of themselves into other executable codes or documents
- directory harvest attacks are attempts to determine the valid email addresses associated with an email server so that they can be added to a spam database
Donna Pogroszewski
Communications and Network Services
01/05/2006 |