What the heck happend to the EXCLUSIVE setting in Outlook - I'm getting Russian **** in my inbox!

Anonymous
2020-01-17T18:25:09+00:00

Just started getting Russian women and male body part emails in my inbox.  I used to have exclusive setting checked.  Where in the heck did that go???  I see that in 2013 lots of people had issues with unwanted spam in their inboxes.  They were told to set exclusive settting.  I really wish Microsoft would quit pushing me to go to gmail!

* Original title: What the heck happend to the EXCLUSIVE setting in Outlook - I'm getting Russian cr** in my inbox!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-02-13T18:08:37+00:00

    you are right i tried this and doesnt work anymore....Junk mails landing daily in my Inbox!!!

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  2. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,526 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-01-22T01:42:39+00:00

    That is an excellent explanation of the subscription feature. 

    >> (ideally only the ones NOT going directly to junk).

    The original subscription feature scanned for subscriptions first but a few months ago they updated Subscriptions and changed things so it ran after the filter pulled out the junk.  At the time, they cleared the subscription list of all the junk and started fresh.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T22:53:58+00:00

    A flaw? Call it what you want. But there are a TON of domains or whatever that I have "subscribed" to that are obvious spammers. A ton. I did not subscribe to them. And my only option is to unsubscribe which takes me to their spurious webpage to unsubscribe, which I am not going to do for obvious reasons.  So then how do I then unsubscribe. Catch 22.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T21:42:35+00:00

    Exactly. This is a virus for sure or a hacker. MS please do something!! 

    What? I said no such thing.

    It's merely a flaw on Microsoft's back end.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T21:35:24+00:00

    Exactly. This is a virus for sure or a hacker. MS please do something!!

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