Received the Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation Scam/Virus in Microsoft Outlook
I opened Microsoft Outlook this morning to find out that Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation Scam/Virus has already gotten through. It’s been there for days but it was only today that I got the chance to open it. Microsoft Outlook automatically downloads emails from my servers so I really cannot notice immediately what emails are downloaded.
I am surprised to find out that the “Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation” scam or virus was not filtered by MS Outlook 2007. This email client is terribly disgusting. I receive more junk emails than legit emails alll the time. The filtering system of Outlook is very poor in performance. I have even tried to increase the junk email filtering optio to HIGH but it declares some of my most important emails as junk while accepting email viruses openly. MS Outlook is very vulnerable to virus and malware attacks sent via emails.
If I were to estimate, the ratio of legit to junk emails is 1:100! This prompted me to look for an alternative email client online and we will start reviewing these softwares soon in this site. Microsoft Outlook sucks! It takes more time to delete junk emails like the “Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation” email scam using this program than actually reading my emails and that’s definitely a waste of time for anyone using it.
I was also looking for anti-spam plugins for this software but it seems I won’t be able to find a free anti-spam plugin. Most of thsoe I have seen online are commercial softwares and freewares have been reported to crash Microsoft Outlook. The Worldpay Card Transaction Confirmation virus or scam is one example of MS Outlook’s vulnerability. I thought of tweaking it a little bit by creating rules but the effects of changing some settings are yet to be seen in a few days. Maybe the best option is to get an email client that is more reliable than this because in my assessment, the level of protection this MS Outlook (2003-2007) can provide is very low. I have seen the same thing in Outlook Express because it is simply a lightweight version of MS Outlook running the same scripts and depending on the same functions.
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Outlook 2007 doesn’t suck. You’re just using it wrong.
Outlook is first and formost a mail client that is designed to work in unison with Microsoft Exchange. Exchange has a feature called IMF (Intelligent Message Filter). This filter is updated regularly, usually on patch Tuesday. While Outlook can be used for POP, it really isn’t designed for that, and as such if you have problems with SPAM (talk to your mail provider for solutions to that issue) then I suggest that you invest in a spam filter that runs locally on your desktop. One such application which I used once upon a time was a baysian filter called “SpamBayes”. I believe you can find it on sourceforge. It’s free and works quite well after a bit of training. If this is not something you want to spend any time on, then make the suggestion to your ISP to offer a spam solution like MXLogic or something similar. Either one works quite well…
But don’t blame Outlook for something it wasn’t designed to do in the first place…that’s like saying how crappy a screw driver is because it can’t drive nails into concrete!
BTW, I know what you’re going to say…”then why does Outlook have that “Junk mail” folder?”
Well, this folder is in place so that when IMF tags an email that exceeds a predefined threshold for spam, it places it in that particular folder. If the spam threshold value is close to the spam threshold, it will place the mail into the “suspected junk” folder. You train IMF by moving junk mails into the Junk folder, this will tell Exchange how to identify spam in the future and help the filter become more accurate.
Ed
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