Q: Where can I find the latest version of the Outlook antispam update?
A: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003 include a Junk E-Mail Filter to help keep Inboxes free of spam messages. This filter is based on SmartScreen, a technology Microsoft developed following years of experience with the spam traps known as Hotmail, MSN, and now Windows Live. Spammers adapt, so administrators combating spam must constantly improve their tools. Microsoft releases updates to the Junk E-Mail Filter for both Outlook and Outlook Express (renamed Windows Mail in Windows Vista) approximately once a month.
Microsoft lists the available Junk E-Mail Filter updates in Knowledge Base article 872976, "How to obtain the latest Outlook Junk E-mail Filter update," at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/872976. This article is updated when new versions of the filter are released, but it’s not an official record and sometimes lags behind. For each Junk E-Mail Filter update, Microsoft assigns a unique Knowledge Base article number for the description and download instructions. A search of Office products in the Microsoft Download Center using "outlook junk e-mail filter update" returns the available downloads for Outlook 2007 and 2003 updates. Click the Release Date column heading to sort the results by release date, as shown in Figure 1. Here we see the latest updates were on March 11, 2008, for Outlook 2003 (Knowledge Base article 947944) and March 10, 2008, for Outlook 2007 (Knowledge Base article 947945). . . .
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