Help! Screening e-mail using Rules

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Bill Blakeney

For the last month I have been receiving approximately 100 extra
e-mails per day, claiming to be from various Microsoft sources, and
most have been pre screened by my Internet provider, and show warnings
of virus infection. Also most have attachments.

I have been deleting these as soon as I get them, but it takes a lot
of time. The addresses look like various Microsoft addresses, and
usually have different scrambled numbers in the addresses, so it is
impossible to screen them out using the addresses (with the scrambled
numbers, each address is different, although all addresses have an
official sounding pseudo Microsoft address).

Is there another method I can use to stop these e-mails?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Bill Blakeney
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Thanks Jocelyn, I verified that I am using Outlook 2000, but following
the instructions for 2000, there is no "Synchronize" under the "Tools"
drop down box??

Suggestions?
 
If Help | About Microsoft Outlook says you're using Internet Mail Only mode,
or you're in Corporate/Workgroup mode but aren't connecting to an Exchange
server, you won't have that option. It doesn't appear as if the
instructions given will work for Internet Mail Only mode.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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Right again Jocelyn, it shows "Internet Mail Only".

Do I have any options from here?
 
None that I know of, except for getting yourself a good anti-spam program
such as IHateSpam or MailWasher. FWIW, Outlook 2003's junk mail filtering
is vastly improved compared to later versions, so if you are thinking of
upgrading, that might be a good reason to do so.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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