Outlook 2000 spam protection

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Roady [MVP]

And the question is?

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Delon

Hi, I believe he is facing the same problem as me... i got
about 20 over spasms a day, started about 2 weeks ago..
ranging from buying insurance to all kinds of pills and
losing weight stuffs. Very irritating.

I have one solution here but it doesnt really work well:
Outlook spam control depends on a filter file which it
uses to filter out spam messages. Thus u have to open the
file (filter.txt) some where in yr harddisk, go search for
it...and key in those keywords which can possibly identify
a spam message... keywords like "pills", "loss weights"
etc...

But it still doesnt really work well and i still have a
lot of spam mails a day... can u help?
Thanks
 
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Roady [MVP]

The filter.txt isn't really considered a spamfilter (not at all actually).
Better is to use a 3rd party spam filter like Mail Washer or ask your
provider to install a (better) spam filter.

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Brian Tillman

Delon said:
I have one solution here but it doesnt really work well:
Outlook spam control depends on a filter file which it
uses to filter out spam messages.

Nope. That file, if you'd read it, indicates that it's informational only
and has no bearing on the SPAM filter Outlook uses. As originally supplied,
it lists the phrases the built-in filter uses, but you can't change the
built-in filter unless you use OL 2003. Even then, the filter can only be
changed using Microsoft-supplied updates.
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