Anti-spam filtering programs have a never ending battle to stop spam and phishing e-mails from reaching our Inbox.  The spammers are constantly changing their tactics and the anti-spam vendors such as Sophos (PureMesssage) are constantly updating their anti-spam fingerprints and defense tactics.  The positive thing is that with this new wave of spam messages, these messages are being marked (you should notice "PMX" in the subject) but are being rated just under the reject level so they are still being forwarded to our Inboxes. 

Source:  Cornell's NET-ADMIN-L NET-ADMIN-L@list.cornell.edu listserv members

How To Set Up An Outlook Rule to Filter Out Tagged PMX Messages

You can filter these e-mail messages marked with PMX into your Junk folder.  So instead of having them clutter up your Inbox, you can check your Junk folder once in a while to verify that there are no legitimate e-mails, and then permanently delete them.

How-to video: http://screencast.com/t/qKqmW7phwKr

Click here for Step by Step Instructions for creating a filter.

How To Add A Person to Outlook's "Safe Sender's List"

On the flip side of this issue, you may see legitimate e-mails being placed in your Junk folder.  You can also set up an Outlook rule to add a person to your 'safe sender's list'.  This will prevent e-mails from that sender going into your Junk folder.

Click here for Step by Step Instructions for adding a person to Outlook's "Safe Sender" List

For more information about these types of messages, check out my previous blog posts here:

• https://confluence.cornell.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=202377972
• https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/wsbn/2012/08/01/SPAM+-+Phishing+E-mails

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