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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Outlook does a pretty good job of catching these things. That one was in my spam folder, but I always make it a habit never to click on links in email.
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If you are running a 32 bit version of Office and Outlook, I recommend Spambayes. It's an open source Bayesian spam filter, written in Python, and installs as an Outlook plugin.
You train it by creating Ham and Spam folders, and putting about 50 each of known good mail into Ham and known spam into Spam. Spambayes analyzes the samples and creates a database of spam characteristics, then classifies incoming mail against them. I ran it when I used Outlook and found it highly useful. I never saw it make a mistake about stuff it was sure was spam, and saw only a handful of false positives on stuff it thought might be spam but wasn't certain.
As spam arrives that it doesn't catch, you mark it as spam and it's added to the database, so it gets more effective over time.
SpamBayes is a 32 bit plugin, and will not work
as a plugin in 64 bit Outlook. In that case, you must install SpamBayes as a proxy server between your Internet feed and Outlook, and let it classify the mail before Outlook sees it.
Also, if you run Win Vista/7/8, you need to install SpamBayes in a non-default location. Win V/7/8 changed the permissions model, and if SpamBayes is installed into Program Files, it won't be allowed to run. Put it in something like C:\SpamBayes instead.
See
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net.
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Dennis