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Outlook spam filter update

March update to your Outlook junk email filter.

Just a reminder that Microsoft now updates the spam filter in Outlook 2007 more often, with the latest released on 9 March 2010.

You can download it from Microsoft or it may arrive via Windows/Microsoft Update.

The update should help Outlook better tell the difference between spam emails and genuine messages.

However no junk email filter is perfect and it’s a good idea to check the ‘Junk E-mail’ folder occasionally to see if there’s anything in there you wanted to read.

Working out which update you have installed is still difficult – instead of a simple note in the ‘About’ screen Microsoft requires customers to dig around in the file properties of Outlfltr.dat.

The above link has details though it seems the instructions are simply copied from update to update, which is a dangerous practice that has embarrased Microsoft many times.  There are instructions for Windows XP and Vista but no mention of Windows 7!

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