What to do about the latest email pest that Outlook isn’t detecting. The latest serial Inbox pest is fake messages that appear to come from the LinkedIn service. Outlook with the latest junk e-mail update doesn’t pick them up. The ‘From’ address is spoofed to appear to come from linkedin.com but hovering over one of […]
Two ‘free’ update emails are scams but not detected by Outlook. We check out the ‘red flags’ you should look for in any suspicious or unexpected email. Two similar scam messages have arrived in the last day, they might fool some people and certainly don’t get caught by Microsoft Outlook’s spam filter. In this article […]
Some options for making a Gmail like ‘Priority Inbox’ in Outlook. Google’s Gmail service continues to innovate with the addition of a Priority Inbox feature. This feature (being gradually deployed to all Gmail users) puts ‘important’ emails into a special view above the standard Inbox. What is deemed ‘important’ changes over time as Gmail watches […]
How to get useful extras for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 without ‘social’ connections. Microsoft’s Outlook Social Connector adds useful features to Outlook, even if you have no interest in the links to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger etc. The social connector adds the Outlook 2010 People Pane to two earlier versions of Outlook. While we […]
A cleverly written phishing email looks like a request from Microsoft. On the back of many fake Amazon emails comes another message not caught by a fully updated Outlook Junk Email filter on the ‘High’ setting. Instead of being safely parked in the Junk E-mail folder, Outlook leaves the message in your Inbox. This one […]
