Cloudmark even valid anymore? Tons of spam

Up until this past year, Forefront for Exchange anti-spam with Cloudmark was rather reliable. However for the past year, spam has been hitting my environment pretty hard. All engines are up to date, forefront is properly integrated, it does catch a good bit of spam based off Connection, SMTP, and Content filtering. However content filtering and SCL/PCL tagging is just the absolute worst. It only is marking e-mails SCL 0 or SCL 9 no inbetween more and more employees are complaining of blatant spam being marked SCL 0. (only becuase I changed the configuration to stop marking them as SCL -1 so IMF can atleast try to do it's job)

Is it just me or has forefront met it's match, I dont even think Cloudmark is keeping up with this anymore.....Time to start looking for a better solution?

And no...No...rules, hard IP blocks, DNS RBLs...and submitting messages to an identity that's probably not evening monitoring submissions is not going to be a good fix...

SIGH


May 22nd, 2014 10:32pm

Hi,

Thanks for posting.

FPE content filter uses Cloudmark antispam engine to analyze e-mail message and stamp it with a SCL. Sorry to say that FPE doesnt assign SCL ratings between SCL 1 to SCL 4 and messages that fall into this category are assigned SCL ratings of SCL -1 or SCL 0. For more detailed information, please refer to the link below:

Configuring content filtering

Best regards,

Susie

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May 26th, 2014 4:03am

Hi,

Thanks for posting.

FPE content filter uses Cloudmark antispam engine to analyze e-mail message and stamp it with a SCL. Sorry to say that FPE doesnt assign SCL ratings between SCL 1 to SCL 4 and messages that fall into this category are assigned SCL ratings of SCL -1 or SCL 0. For more detailed information, please refer to the link below:

Configuring content filtering

Best regards,

Susie

May 26th, 2014 7:03am

Nothing??  Hello is this mike on? Anyone at Microsoft with any suggestions?  updates? 
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February 3rd, 2015 11:57am

I agree.  When will we get an answer on this?
February 3rd, 2015 12:56pm

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