Outlook Express Junk Mails (W98)

[novice_pc_user]

Hi all

Is there a way to filter the mail in this program so we receive only from those in our address book? I have been thru all of the options, etc but can't seem to find anything. For the past month or so we have been getting tonnes of junk mail - over 20 a day - and more recently, the W32.Klez/Sircam virus (about 3 out of 5 emails have this). Thank god for Norton's Anti-virus!!! I'm using OE 6.

I am fed up blocking - it takes forever. Is there a way to stop this without changing our main email address.

Thanks

[7ate9]

Within the MEssage Rules section of OE, you can create a filter that will allow anything NOT from certain people to go into the trash. You would have to set it up so that the people in your address book are not that ones that get redirected into the trash. This is really only feasible of course, if your address book isn't TOO big. But thats the best thing I can think of at the moment.



7ate9
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[Picapica]

Hmm.. how about changing email address? It's not what anyone would want to do of course. But sending every person in your address book (just put everyone in bcc) a note that has your new email address does not take long. It will last months before spam lists will get track of your new address.

Think of the effort you have to put in fighting off spam vs. effort in creating a new one.

It's what I did two months ago. 15 to 20 spams a day, is just too much.

Cheers

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[Hally]

Do you have your setting in OE tools\ options\ security tab set to restricted zone its much safer plus you can go to this site
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main.htm & down load a small file that merges into your registry ie-spy-ad its a great idea have a read about it good luck ---Hally---

[report_2]

Regarding Klez:
I use Outlook and OE may or may not have this feature.

Assuming you can open one of these emails after it has been fixed by Norton then try going to View, Options. There it will show you the header information.

It will show at the top the address that is shown in the email's from field and at the bottom of the list it will show the email that is actually sending the email. It is this person that is infected and is probably someone you know and is in your address book.

Send that person an email explaining that they need to fix it or at least take you out of their address book.

I had this problem at work. I performed as I explained above and although I was getting emails from 'suppossedly' from 20 different people, it was truly only from one sender. A week later I was getting them again from one of the recipients of the original infected email for whom also got infected and I was in their address book too.

I had the original person arrange to have the second machine fixed.

The entire effort took almost two weeks before everyone that was concerned had a clean machine and no more klez emails.

In the end it was only two infected machines but the emails were appearing as though they were coming from 20 different machines.

HTH

[report_2]

Regarding the junk mail...
I am not familiar with the filtering that you are looking for but allow me to share my recent experience.

There is a person named Shelly whom lives in Arizona. Shelly, in August of 2001 signed up at Freestuff.com and used my email address. This particular address was assigned to me in March of this year when Mediaone was switched over to ATTBI.com. I did not own the address when Shelly signed up in August.

I was getting the 20 spams per day. I started clicking on the unsubscribe option at the bottom of the emails and found most of them led back to Freestuff.com.
They kept coming but different ads and much less of them.
I went to Freestuff.com and used their 'Contact Us' button and sent them an email explaining that I am not Shelly. I even provided Shelly's street address.

I got no reply but the spam is presently down to about one per week.

This had taken about a month to get it to one per week.

I had heard it said "Do not click on the Unsubscribe because that actually verifies that they sent it to a valid address and it signs you up"

Like the virus originating from a single source; the spam is probably coming from a single source too. In this case you are apparently already signed up by somebody's doing.

It is my contention to cure the cause rather than to treat the symptoms.