


Microsoft's spokesperson explained: "Like all email services, Hotmail and Outlook (for both consumer or commercial work accounts) have spam filters to block unsolicited spam email. Ultimately, though, defeat always lurks, even in your inbox. You can more aggressively filter your junk mail - the default is set for "No Automatic Filtering." Especially as more and more of it now appears in my regular inbox.Ī company spokesman explained that you can customize your junk folder. I asked Microsoft why the company is still unable to make sure that all this sort of stuff goes straight to junk. I was very, very lucky that it seemed to cause no subsequent damage.

I did it once, many years ago - I clicked on the link even. Email is, by its very nature, a medium that constantly assaults your attention, so it's easy to open such emails automatically and even respond to them without sufficient thought.
