Disabling Outlook 2007 Phishing?

[mdlister]

Hello,

Currently we have the Junk Email options disabled via Group Policy t
prevent emails from being redirected to the junk email box.

I am trying to convince the powers that be that this is a bad idea a
you can not create safe lists to allow trusted emails to auto downloa
images.

I have managed to convince them that they can turn it on and set it t
No Automatic Filtering allowing all emails to go directly to the inbo
but they are still worried about the new features of office 200
creating false positives as detailed here: (http://tinyurl.com/2zmk9j)

Again this wouldn't be a problem if i can find the registry key tha
removes the tick from "Disable links and other functionality i
phishing messages."

Any ideas on either turning it off or disabling it?

Thank

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I have managed to convince them that they can turn it on and set it to
No Automatic Filtering allowing all emails to go directly to the inbox
but they are still worried about the new features of office 2007
creating false positives as detailed here: (http://tinyurl.com/2zmk9j)

My opinion is that this is a remote possibiliy, especially if the options
aren't set to "high" and if they've enabled their address books as safe.

Again this wouldn't be a problem if i can find the registry key that
removes the tick from "Disable links and other functionality in
phishing messages."

Any ideas on either turning it off or disabling it?

Use regmon
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/regmon.html) to
find it. If it exists, regmon will tell you. Just toggle it while regmon
is running and see what changes.

 

[mdlister]

Thanks Brian, i have tried using the sysinternals regmon and tried t
apply filters to see only the outlook keys as there are loads of ke
changes and lookups just changing focus from regmon to outlook, i hav
also tried Inctrl5 which captures the registry then make changes an
compares the registry to see the differences but again there were no
any obvious keys that relate to HKCU software policies etc. Seems od
that Microsoft wouldnt have a policy to be able to force this to On a
it is a recommended option therefore i should be able to reverse it t
off

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

While there may be false positives, it seems to be less of a problem as the
filter is honed and updated. However, even if an item is marked as phishing,
its not always moved to the junk filter and turning the links on is as
simple as clicking in the infobar. I haven't seen a false positive for
phishing in months. I have junk filtering set to high and it captures
newsletters and ads, but it hasn't trapped a personal message in months -
and I do not trust my address book. (nor do I trust anyone for downloaded
content - most of my mail with blocked content is ads or newsletter where
its no big deal and it takes a second to enable it, if I need to see it.

According to my registry scanner, its stored in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook\0a0d020000000000c000000000000046\
000b042a


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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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