- Will OE filter out "Microsoft" security patch messages?
- Posted by Ima Goodlay on September 23rd, 2003
"Microsoft" sent me an e-mail. Attached was a security patch. I
received the message 6 times today. I've already downloaded the patch
from the Microsoft web site and my AVG is up-to-date.
What I want to do is to have future Microsoft security patch messages
go direct to the Trash folder by using the Outlook Express message
rules filter.
When the filter reads the messages will it cause the virus to start
up?
More information:
I receive 4 spam messages a day. Most are the same so rather than
install a program like Mail Washer, I've set the OE message rules to
filter out this small amount of junk mail. Seems to work good enough
for me.
- Posted by °Mike° on September 23rd, 2003
Unless you subscribe to any Microsoft bulletins, make a rule
that contains the word Microsoft in the subject line, OR
the message body, OR the From line, and delete it.
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:36:11 GMT, in
<3f708ae4.86177807@news.wanadoo.nl>
Ima Goodlay scrawled:
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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html
- Posted by Buffalo on September 23rd, 2003
First of all, all those MS emails that you are getting are not from MS and
they contain a virus.
Secondly, some uses are getting over a hundred a day.
You were very smart to delete those without opening any of them.
If you did, you got infected with the Sven virus.
http://www.mcafee.com/
http://www.symantec.com/ for example the tool here and instructions
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...ools.list.html
the fix swen exe in this case is 190KB.
or
http://www.f-prot.com/
or
www.microsoft.com/security
The following is from a Post by Ron Martell on how to set up OE to filter
those pesky messages:
"Here is my OE message rule.
It has been 100% effective for the past 2 days:
Where the message body contains 'This is the qmail program'
or 'Undelivered message to'
or 'I'm sorry to have to inform you that I wasn't able to deliver your
message'
or 'I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message'
or 'Undeliverable mail to'
or 'all known security vulnerabilities'
or 'Undelivered mail to' or 'Undeliverable message to'
or 'I'm sorry I wasn't able to deliver your message'
or 'Undeliverable to'
or 'I'm afraid the message returned below'
or 'Undelivered to'
or 'An e-mail delivered to you contained a virus'
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP
"Ima Goodlay" <ima.goodlay@do.not.use.this.address> wrote in message
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- Posted by Ima Goodlay on September 23rd, 2003
Super Buffalo. I recognize some of them and will start entering your
list in now.
Thank you.
Ima
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:08:50 GMT, "Buffalo" <eric(nospam)@noBS.nada>
wrote:
