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T5 - 14 Jun 2007 20:41 GMT

For what seems an eternity now, Outlook 2003 has been unable to stop certain
spam even with all the latest updates to the junk mail filter etc etc.

I have the options for junk mail set to High>>>safe senders/recipients,
blocked top level domains and encodings and still I get the Nigerian
spam/scam mail, still I get the fake pills spam and still I get the average
guy (girl looking suprised at a big cock) spam. I also get the cheap
software spam. Please tell me why the filters and the rules just don't
filter out this crap and why does it get past the settings that I have? It
is driving me insane. All day everyday I have 20-30 spams and 2-3 decent
mails. Is there not a Microsoft plugin or something that catches these
annoyances and then automatically resends them back to the sender a million
times. see if he likes his mailbox choked to death............. Come on MS
give us some protection. Another point.... I have had probably a dozen
updates for the outlook junk mail filter.............what does it actually
do? I am getting more spam now than I ever have and I rarely subscribe to
anything unless it is bonefide so why do I keep getting this crap.

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Jeff - 14 Jun 2007 23:30 GMT

I get the same spam. The problem is the spammers are "smart". Rather than
sending their spam as text that can be read and filtered, they now send their
spam as .jpeg's. Outlook's filters are not capable of reading a .jpeg and
determining it's content.

> For what seems an eternity now, Outlook 2003 has been unable to stop certain
> spam even with all the latest updates to the junk mail filter etc etc.
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> do? I am getting more spam now than I ever have and I rarely subscribe to
> anything unless it is bonefide so why do I keep getting this crap.

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Pat Willener - 15 Jun 2007 05:43 GMT

Get an efficient spam filter. Cloudmark Desktop
(http://cloudmark.com/desktop/) catches about 99.9% of all my spam, and
has close to 0 false positives. Not free, but it leaves you with a clean
inbox.

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Brian Tillman - 15 Jun 2007 14:45 GMT

> I am getting more spam now than I ever have and I rarely
> subscribe to anything unless it is bonefide so why do I keep getting
> this crap.

And if Cloudmark doesn't sound attractive to you, I find SpamPal
(https://www.spampal.org/) and Spambayes (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/)
work quite well and cost nothing. Each uses a different technique for
determining spam, the former using the network source of the message and the
latter a content examiner.

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