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Charley Kyd
(Note that I've received 250 spams in the past 12 hours. More than 10% of
these contained viruses sent from "Microsoft". That is, the messages either
had "microsoft", "ms", "msdn", or the like in the sender's domain, or the
body of the message had a fake Microsoft logo.)
For the second time in two days, Outlook 2003 has told me that I can't block
a sender because the sender's email address isn't valid. Both messages
contained a virus. Both claimed to be from Microsoft. But that's not the
worst of the problems.
Outlook does a good job of protecting me from harmless spam sent from porn
sites, but it does a horrible job of protecting me from damaging viruses
sent from "Microsoft".
--Why can't I set up a rule that blocks messages with invalid email
addresses, including blank email addresses?
--Why can't Outlook recognize messages sent by people falsely claiming to be
from Microsoft?
--When I Add Sender to Blocked Senders List, why does Outlook have to open
the message and thus set off my virus checker? Can't it find a safe way to
gather the information it needs without opening the message?
--Why can't we have a more powerful blocked-message manager? (After three
days of using Outlook 2003, I've blocked 50 domains--most with some
variation of "microsoft" in the name, along with 18 more URLs. Manually
blocking 50 domains is a tedious process in Outlook 2003.)
--Why can't I also choose to block only the attachments from certain
domains? That would allow me to block all attachments sent from yahoo.com.
As it is, I'm about ready to block *all* messages from yahoo.
--I'm now getting spam that I supposedly sent to myself. Isn't there some
way to identify and block that stuff?
--Why doesn't Outlook provide a Message Properties tool, which--without
opening the message--would report all message-header properties, even hidden
properties? This combined with a more powerful Junk email manager would help
us to manage some of these issues ourselves.
Sigh.
Charley
these contained viruses sent from "Microsoft". That is, the messages either
had "microsoft", "ms", "msdn", or the like in the sender's domain, or the
body of the message had a fake Microsoft logo.)
For the second time in two days, Outlook 2003 has told me that I can't block
a sender because the sender's email address isn't valid. Both messages
contained a virus. Both claimed to be from Microsoft. But that's not the
worst of the problems.
Outlook does a good job of protecting me from harmless spam sent from porn
sites, but it does a horrible job of protecting me from damaging viruses
sent from "Microsoft".
--Why can't I set up a rule that blocks messages with invalid email
addresses, including blank email addresses?
--Why can't Outlook recognize messages sent by people falsely claiming to be
from Microsoft?
--When I Add Sender to Blocked Senders List, why does Outlook have to open
the message and thus set off my virus checker? Can't it find a safe way to
gather the information it needs without opening the message?
--Why can't we have a more powerful blocked-message manager? (After three
days of using Outlook 2003, I've blocked 50 domains--most with some
variation of "microsoft" in the name, along with 18 more URLs. Manually
blocking 50 domains is a tedious process in Outlook 2003.)
--Why can't I also choose to block only the attachments from certain
domains? That would allow me to block all attachments sent from yahoo.com.
As it is, I'm about ready to block *all* messages from yahoo.
--I'm now getting spam that I supposedly sent to myself. Isn't there some
way to identify and block that stuff?
--Why doesn't Outlook provide a Message Properties tool, which--without
opening the message--would report all message-header properties, even hidden
properties? This combined with a more powerful Junk email manager would help
us to manage some of these issues ourselves.
Sigh.
Charley