Decent SPAM/Phish/Junk Filtering
Legay email junk filters have been defeated now by black-hats who randomize their email addresses. Until we can force/enforce no modification of sender/reply-to addresses in an email, here we are. Are there intelligent Outlook plug-ins available to identify malware email?
I am on Classic Outlook (v 2501 Build 18429.20158), a POP (and also IMAP) accounts, W10 Pro and W11 Pro
RULES:
Outlook "RULES" do not solve the problem. Like the legacy Junk Filter, are very static.
To be specific: There is an assumption that the condition(s) being searched is based on triggers that do not change (e.g., sender address, subject line, etc.) Yes you list multiple choices in the rules (e.g., email from "A", "B", or "C") but these are also static. Rules do not provide some program logic ("intelligence") and a dynamically growing database to deal with today's collection of black-hats. E.G., These creeps use random alphanumeric generators for sender, reply-to and so on. Far from static, defeating classic junk filters and most rules.
PLUG-IN:
For this newly necessary level of dynamics and intelligence (of sorts), for now, in desparation, I wrote my own VBA code for Outlook and plopped it in. It is invoked on receipt of each mail. It examines all the email's key components (sender, name, subject, body, ...) and looks for patterns and triggers and red flags using "databases" (just a set of flat files right now) that I need to (manually) maintain and grow. All these use simple pseudo regular expression wildcards. Examples: keranique or nervepain* or @[a-z0-9-][a-z0-9-][a-z0-9-][a-z0-9-].de* The action if one of the hundreds of triggers is detected is either KEEP, JUNK or DELETE.
That approach works OK, but it's "amateur". Still, the approach seems valid. It removes about 100 inbound emails per day that make it right past all the rules and standard junk filters that are in place. The detect rate is about 90%, since I aggressively update the databases whenever garbage leaks through to my inbox. So the efficacy is nice, but far too time consuming and manual.
Isn't there a more professional plug-in for Outlook (DLL or simple VBA, anything) that
- Has good intelligence and logic?
- Examines each inbound email in detail for suspiciousness.
Has a industry-based or 3rd party database of these triggers, maintained by the provider and/or the community with contributions?
Works with PC and/or Web Outlook? (NOTE: it does not HAVE to be cloud-based or device-neutral. I would be happy with one that only runs on our primary workstation)
Is NOT slammed by Microsoft?
Is itself a malware-free product package that can be trusted
Thanks very much.