Junk Mail Help (Rules)

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Steve Klenner

I've installed Office 2003 and found that the junk mail filter works quite
well. The exception to this is the annoying virus e-mails that includes a
"replace infected file.txt" as an attachment. Is there someway to specify
moving that mail to junk when it sees that specific attachment? Or....has
someone found a good way the filter this type junk mail and move it to JUNK?

Thanks
Steve
 
No, you can't set a rule based on the name of an attachment.

Any other field that continues to be the same? Like subject, body or
IP-address? You can set filters for those.

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People have been looking for this capability for a couple of years
now, and I havn't seen any answer.

SO....how about this. Let's see if we can get Norton to add something
to the message header when it deletes a virus in the attachment. One
can write rules that look for something in the header.

Ken
 
Rules based on the names or type of attachments is something that could help
indeed and has been mentioned here before.
You might want to send your feedback to Microsoft so they can consder it for
future versions or as an add-on;
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/suggestions.aspx

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Sounds like your anti-virus software has striped the
infected attachment from your e-mail and has replaced it
with this text file that likely tells you the details.
You or your system administrator should be able to
configure the anti-virus software not to notify you of
removed infectious attachements.
 
Yes, the problem is that you never know you got an e-mail in the first
place. While loads of times it is only a virusmessage it also happens that
someone sends you a legit e-mail with a virus or a macro that the
virusscanner doesn't like. Dropping those legit messages can have even more
serious results. For one privacy; you are now modifying the users mailbox
which is an invading of privacy. You are only allowed to drop
messages/attachments that pose a threat to the network. Since the message is
harmless without the virus you are not allowed to drop the rest of the
message as well. This makes fighting spam really hard for corporate
environments as well. While a support employee probably doesn't want
anything to do with mails about mortgage an accountant could have lost a big
customer...

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