Virus attacking Outlook

[Rightmer]

You gotta love the kids for making these pesky viruses and
worms. Wish I was that smart...

I have the latest updates and definitions from Norton, and
it seems to be doing good. my Outlook 2000 is recieving
every email, and norton deletes or captures each virus as
it comes in.

What I want to know is, how do I set up some type of
filter, blocking out common words in the subject, or block
senders?? I know it can be done, but I'm not sure how. Can
anyone help?

Please?

 

[Steven M (remove dirt to reply)]

You gotta love the kids for making these pesky viruses and
worms. Wish I was that smart...

I have the latest updates and definitions from Norton, and
it seems to be doing good. my Outlook 2000 is recieving
every email, and norton deletes or captures each virus as
it comes in.

What I want to know is, how do I set up some type of
filter, blocking out common words in the subject, or block
senders?? I know it can be done, but I'm not sure how. Can
anyone help?

There are so many possible places that viruses come from and they
change so often, that you will never create enough rules to catch
everything.

But you might be able to create a rule that helps manage a flood of
email caused by one particular virus. Click on Tools, Rules Wizard
and follow the directions.

For example, a few months ago I was getting a lot of the "Swen" virus.
Road Runner was deleting the virus, but still letting through the
message, about 60 the first day. I found a string that appeared in
the body of each warning, and was able to write a rule to divert all
the virus attempts to a particular folder.



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Steve M - (e-mail address removed) (remove dirt for reply)

Ecclesiastes 9-11: 'speed does not always win the race, nor
strength the battle' ...
Damon Runyon: ... 'but that's the way to bet them'

 

[Guest]

Use the Rules' Wizard under the Tools pull-down menu to
set up filters for unwanted mail. I created a couple
of "Expected Spam" folders and told the Wizard to move
mail from the Inbox to them if it has certain words in the
subject or body of the incoming mail. Then I can surf
through the spam later to make sure it didn't net
something that I wanted to get.

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