Oriental Spam

how to block this?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

For the last few weeks I have been receiving p0rn spam from some oriental sources. I looked at a couple of the source and did a check on the net. This shows that the sites are malicious so I would like to filter and permanently delete these files before they are downloaded.

Does anyone know how to set Outlook to recognise foreign scripts, which appear as stuff like H¦P®É©Ê·H¦P®É©Ê·R²V¾Ô R²V¾Ô?

[lawman]

I use SpamBayes for Outlook and it handles those sites without a problem.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Hi Lawman. I also use Spambayes and as you say it handles this well but it places them in my Junk E-mail folder. I never just automatically delete all spam in there because I report some of it and I still get the odd instance where Spambayes wrongly identifies a good email as spam. I do not want to chance an accidental click on any of the links in these malicious emails.

What I was looking for was an Outlook rule that permanently deletes this oriental spam. Outlook rules can be set up to permananently delete certain emails but my problem is how to set up a condition that checks for this type of text.

[Visit Thailand]

Can you not set the Rule to check whether the email contains text such as... and just copy and paste some of the strange charachters and see if that works? Of course that won't get them all but it might catch more than you expect.

Or of course set the rule to delete any email from x email address.

Ps. Also why is this in Foo as it is all about Outlook should it not be somewhere else where you might get more replies.

[edited by: Visit_Thailand at 10:56 am (utc) on July 25, 2006]

[Syzygy]

I do not want to chance an accidental click on any of the links in these malicious emails.

Wouldn't that entail opening it first? :-)

Syzygy

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Also why is this in Foo as it is all about Outlook should it not be somewhere else where you might get more replies.

I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it.

Wouldn't that entail opening it first? :-)

No. I use Outlook with a preview window that lets you click links without actually opening the email.

[rocknbil]

Oriental Spam
how to block this?

I would say a karate chop to the throat or a high kick to the chin should do it. Watch three Jackie Chan movies for technique, practice and execute accordingly.

[Visit Thailand]

Outlook with a preview window that lets you click links without actually opening the email.

I have all the preview windows turned off as I remember reading that some past viruses simply needed a user to preview or open the email to activate.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I believe that this was once the case but as I understand it it is quite safe now.

[Visit Thailand]

So have you managed to fix the problem yet?

[vincevincevince]

Maybe you need to install support for oriental characters and then you might be able to build the rule more effectively?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Yes, but oriental characters are not easy to work with and these are not real oriental characters if you know what I mean ;)

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I just figured that the "¥" character is almost always found within these emails so I set up an Outlook rule to pemanently delete messages with this in the body.

Seems to be working.

[mondine]

Another way that can be useful for blocking 'Asian' spam, is to filter for "does not contain".
And pick a vowel. "e" should do.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

What if you email someone a question and they reply "no" or "no thank you"? ;)