How Outlook 2007 Phishing Protection Works

Phishing is an attempt to fraudulently obtain personal information by luring you to a Web site and asking you to disclose things like passwords, credit card numbers, and so on. This Web site is spoofed, or pretending to be a trusted site—sometimes remarkably well—when it is actually a fake setup to help steal your personal information. Phishing is often done by sending e-mail that directs you to the spoofed site. With the widespread use of HTML e-mail, it’s easier to disguise the actual destination of a link, and accordingly harder for you to detect the misdirection.

Fortunately, Microsoft has added anti-phishing features to Outlook 2007, to help protect you from suspicious Web sites and e-mail addresses. E-mail messages are evaluated as they arrive, and messages that appear to be phishing are delivered to the Inbox, not the Junk E-Mail folder, but are otherwise treated much like junk e-mail, with a number of functions disabled.

  • Disable Links And Other Functionality In Phishing Messages. If Outlook 2007 determines that a message appears to be phishing, the message is delivered to the Inbox, but attachments and links in the message are blocked and the Reply and Reply All functions are disabled.

  • Warn Me About Suspicious Domain Names In E-Mail Addresses. This option warns you when the sender’s e-mail domain uses certain characters in an attempt to masquerade as a well-known, legitimate business. Leaving this functionality enabled protects you against phishing attacks using spoofed e-mail addresses.

Note

Phishing protection is functional even when the No Automatic Filtering option is selected and other junk e-mail protection options are disabled.

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