
Introduction 11
Energize Updates provide your Barracuda Spam Firewall with the following benefits:
• Access to known offending IP addresses
• Known spam messages instantly blocked
• Known spam content blocked
• Virus definitions constantly updated
The following figure shows how Barracuda Central provides the latest spam and virus definitions
through Energize.
Understanding Spam Scoring
The Barracuda Spam Firewall scrutinizes all the characteristics of a message and uses a complex
system of scores to determine whether a message is spam. When an e-mail reaches the spam scoring
filter, the Barracuda Spam Firewall assigns scores to all the properties of the message.
For example, the Barracuda Spam Firewall srutinizes:
• A message’s header and subject line for offensive characters or words
• The percentage of HTML in the message
• Whether a message contains an “unsubscribe” link
These properties (along with many others) help the Barracuda Spam Firewall determine the spam
score for a message that is displayed on the Message Log page of the administration interface.
Energize Update keeps the spam rules and scores up-to-date so the Barracuda Spam Firewall can
quickly counteract the latest techniques used by spammers.
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