Hi. I am receiving a lot of spam email from hong kong domains (*.hk) which I
would like to block/filter out from my inbox. I use Outlook Express 6 for
Windows XP home but I don't know the exact procedure to follow so if anyone
knows I would appreciate some help!

Thanks,

Nick Magos

There's no good way to do that.

You can use with Blocked Sender List (which moves downloaded messages to
the Deleted Items folder) or a message rule.

You would have to match on
..hk
(dot H K)

OE doesn't use wild cards. It does a string match with the string
appearing anywhere in the field. So matching on .hk might catch more
than you intend.

There's an alternate method, assuming the messages are not in English.

I've found this Outlook Express Message Rule fairly effective with Asian
spam

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the Subject line contains 'ä' or '±' or '¥' or 'À' or 'Ç' or '¤'
or 'Æ' or 'Á' or 'Ò' or '¶' or '¯' or 'ª'
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

If it misses a message, I copy/paste another unique character from the
subject into the rule. That characters have to be added one at a time.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ahristosTelios" wrote in
message ...
Hi. I am receiving a lot of spam email from hong kong domains (*.hk)
which I
would like to block/filter out from my inbox. I use Outlook Express 6
for
Windows XP home but I don't know the exact procedure to follow so if
anyone
knows I would appreciate some help!

Thanks,

Nick Magos

The messages are either in english or german but they are actually delivered
as hyper-linked text images so I don't think a text search within the message
body will prove fruitful. All these text images are hyperlinked to hong kong
domains and you can verify that just by floating the mouse over the image!

What if I create a message rule that filters and deletes all messages that
match the string ".hk" without the wildcard in the from field? Is this
possible in OE and will it prove effective? The problem here is that they
use random names and random subjects so what can be blocked other than IP
ranges? What IP ranges are they using and is it possible to block them from
Norton Antivirus worm protection?

Thanks for any help,

Nick Magos

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

There's no good way to do that.

You can use with Blocked Sender List (which moves downloaded messages to
the Deleted Items folder) or a message rule.

You would have to match on
..hk
(dot H K)

OE doesn't use wild cards. It does a string match with the string
appearing anywhere in the field. So matching on .hk might catch more
than you intend.

There's an alternate method, assuming the messages are not in English.

I've found this Outlook Express Message Rule fairly effective with Asian
spam

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the Subject line contains 'ä' or '±' or '¥' or 'À' or 'Ç' or '¤'
or 'Æ' or 'Á' or 'Ò' or '¶' or '¯' or 'ª'
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

If it misses a message, I copy/paste another unique character from the
subject into the rule. That characters have to be added one at a time.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ahristosTelios" wrote in
message ...
Hi. I am receiving a lot of spam email from hong kong domains (*.hk)
which I
would like to block/filter out from my inbox. I use Outlook Express 6
for
Windows XP home but I don't know the exact procedure to follow so if
anyone
knows I would appreciate some help!

Thanks,

Nick Magos

You can have OE check the From for ".hk". It's just that it might match
more than you want since it will look for that 3 character string
anywhere in the From, not just at the end of the e-mail address. But
the.hk should be relatively safe. If you were going for something like
".co" you would also get all the ".com".

You can't do any IP blocking in OE. I don't know what Norton is capable
of.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ahristosTelios" wrote in
message ...
The messages are either in english or german but they are actually
delivered
as hyper-linked text images so I don't think a text search within the
message
body will prove fruitful. All these text images are hyperlinked to
hong kong
domains and you can verify that just by floating the mouse over the
image!

What if I create a message rule that filters and deletes all messages
that
match the string ".hk" without the wildcard in the from field? Is
this
possible in OE and will it prove effective? The problem here is that
they
use random names and random subjects so what can be blocked other than
IP
ranges? What IP ranges are they using and is it possible to block
them from
Norton Antivirus worm protection?

Thanks for any help,

Nick Magos

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

There's no good way to do that.

You can use with Blocked Sender List (which moves downloaded messages
to
the Deleted Items folder) or a message rule.

You would have to match on
..hk
(dot H K)

OE doesn't use wild cards. It does a string match with the string
appearing anywhere in the field. So matching on .hk might catch more
than you intend.

There's an alternate method, assuming the messages are not in
English.

I've found this Outlook Express Message Rule fairly effective with
Asian
spam

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the Subject line contains 'ä' or '±' or '¥' or 'À' or 'Ç' or
'¤'
or 'Æ' or 'Á' or 'Ò' or '¶' or '¯' or 'ª'
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

If it misses a message, I copy/paste another unique character from
the
subject into the rule. That characters have to be added one at a
time.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ahristosTelios" wrote in
message ...
Hi. I am receiving a lot of spam email from hong kong domains
(*.hk)
which I
would like to block/filter out from my inbox. I use Outlook
Express 6
for
Windows XP home but I don't know the exact procedure to follow so
if
anyone
knows I would appreciate some help!

Thanks,

Nick Magos

I would say OE is quite limited in some regards with respect to blocking
unwanted email. True, message rules are somewhat effective but the "bad
guys" are always a step ahead in circumventing security and capitalizing on
legal shortcommings!

I will try IP blocking with Norton but to do this I need to know what IP
block IANA has given to all Hong Kong ISPs! Not the easiest of tasks I may
add and I doubt its even worth it! It would be MUCH EASIER if OE accepted
wildcards in its text search!

Thanks for your help!

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

You can have OE check the From for ".hk". It's just that it might match
more than you want since it will look for that 3 character string
anywhere in the From, not just at the end of the e-mail address. But
the.hk should be relatively safe. If you were going for something like
".co" you would also get all the ".com".

You can't do any IP blocking in OE. I don't know what Norton is capable
of.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ahristosTelios" wrote in
message ...
The messages are either in english or german but they are actually
delivered
as hyper-linked text images so I don't think a text search within the
message
body will prove fruitful. All these text images are hyperlinked to
hong kong
domains and you can verify that just by floating the mouse over the
image!

What if I create a message rule that filters and deletes all messages
that
match the string ".hk" without the wildcard in the from field? Is
this
possible in OE and will it prove effective? The problem here is that
they
use random names and random subjects so what can be blocked other than
IP
ranges? What IP ranges are they using and is it possible to block
them from
Norton Antivirus worm protection?

Thanks for any help,

Nick Magos

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

There's no good way to do that.

You can use with Blocked Sender List (which moves downloaded messages
to
the Deleted Items folder) or a message rule.

You would have to match on
..hk
(dot H K)

OE doesn't use wild cards. It does a string match with the string
appearing anywhere in the field. So matching on .hk might catch more
than you intend.

There's an alternate method, assuming the messages are not in
English.

I've found this Outlook Express Message Rule fairly effective with
Asian
spam

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the Subject line contains 'ä' or '±' or '¥' or 'À' or 'Ç' or
'¤'
or 'Æ' or 'Á' or 'Ò' or '¶' or '¯' or 'ª'
Delete it
and Stop processing more rules

If it misses a message, I copy/paste another unique character from
the
subject into the rule. That characters have to be added one at a
time.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"ahristosTelios" wrote in
message ...
Hi. I am receiving a lot of spam email from hong kong domains
(*.hk)
which I
would like to block/filter out from my inbox. I use Outlook
Express 6
for
Windows XP home but I don't know the exact procedure to follow so
if
anyone
knows I would appreciate some help!

Thanks,

Nick Magos