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Thread ID: 19107	2002-05-08 23:19:00	Outlook Express Virus	Guest (0)	Press F1

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47815	2002-05-08 23:19:00	With the new virus problems that have come out over the last few weeks - several times when I have opened Outlook Express - there had been a heap of spam messages and always 1-2 with a virus in them. My AV jumps on them quick - but how do I stop Outlook Express from opening them automatically? Just want to be able to delete them when they arrive in the inbox - so they done open into the system? Must be some change of setting I can make to the program? Thanks, Simon	Guest (0)
47816	2002-05-09 01:09:00	There are a couple of ways to do this, however the easiest is to set message rules. Basically you want to set a rule that deletes spam straight off the server so it doesn't even arrive in your inbox: 1- In OE5, go to Tools > Message Rules > Mail 2- Set the message rules to delete the mail off the server if it contains certain criteria like a from address or an attachment.	Guest (0)
47817	2002-05-09 02:59:00	First of all you don't want Outlook opening messages automatically so in OE go to View>layout and remove the tick from Show Preview Pane. The other way to get rid on on going messages try the following. If you are using Outlook Express you can set up rules, one of them is Delete from Server. Highlight the offending message, Click on Message - Create Rule From Message - that will open a box with three windows, the first window is ticked by default Where The Sender Is - go to the second window and tick Delete from Server - now the fun begins, in the third window is the senders address. If the address is yahoo, xtra, mailcity, or any other common web based mail, then just Ok the rule. If the address ends in something such as grouplotto.com or adultmail.com, then you can create a additional rule to further block mail from that site even if they change the first part of the address from freecar to freemoney. Place your mouse over the address, single right click the address, that will bring up a extra window, in the ADD line type in the address from and including the @, so for example type in @grouplotto.com and that will block other messages from that site as well. If you were to apply this to addresses for sites ending in yahoo for example, then you would also block all good senders from yahoo as well.	Guest (0)
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