Outlook Express was one of the earlier e-mail clients to support HTML e-mail and scripts. As a result, emails were commonly infected with viruses. Previously, another security flaw was that a script could automatically be opened as an attachment. Another bug was in Outlook Express's attachment handling that allowed an executable to appear to be a harmless attachment such as a graphics file. Opening or previewing the e-mail could cause code to run without the user's knowledge or consent. Outlook Express uses Internet Explorer to render HTML e-mail. Internet Explorer has been widely criticized for having numerous security issues. However, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer both feature security zones to prevent such issues. With Outlook Express SP2 , Microsoft has aimed to correct the security issues. Outlook Express now blocks images inside e-mails by default. It uses only the restricted security zone for HTML e-mail which disables scripts and imposes restrictions on what web content can be rendered. It also warns when opening potentially malicious attachments. Outlook has an easy to use Rules Wizard. You can use the Wizard to send a message that you are on vacation, move messages to certain files, and delete messages from certain people. Using the Wizard makes this an easy to use option for e-mail management. We recommend that you use it in this case for stopping spam. Outlook Instructions Click Tools in the top menu bar. Click Rules Wizard and then New. Select a condition in the first window pane. We selected "move messages based on content". In the bottom window pane, click on an underlined item and enter a word, phrase or address as requested based on the rule. We clicked on "apply this rule with specific words in the subject or body". When we clicked on the underlined "specific word", we entered our keyword to sort which items would be considered spam. We also had a phrase in the window pane that said "move it to the specified folder". We clicked the underlined "folder" and selected delete. Go to http://www.computersystemhelp.com/outlook.htm for more information.