Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter Flags Microsoft Newsletter as Phishing Message

outlook phishing email filter

The junk email filter in Outlook 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2007 includes an anti-phishing feature that will automatically disable hyperlinks in an e-mail message that may point to phishing websites.

Perfect but the phishing detection algorithm of Outlook can get funny sometimes - see the screenshot.

The email is actually a Microsoft Technet Newsletter from microsoft.com itself that was wrongly flagged by Outlook as a "potentially unsafe phishing message."

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