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

I'm having the same problem.  It started January 18.  I talked with Tech Support and have both boxes in settings checked for the junk mail.  The emails are still coming.   All of the emails have the same domain  -- vertical-aff.com.

This is maddening.  What happend to the feature/function that grabbed what looked like junk?  I used to just get emails ONLY from people of my choice.  I have painstakingly cleaned my safe senders list and looked for sneaky litte buggers that hide in the mile long  list that I have to remove one by one. from a tiny little view. There's got to be a better way. I've cleaned up everything I can find and I'm still getting junk.

I think what's going on here is that this service is FREE.  If we were paying for it, we could just stop paying for it and things would start getting fixed.  I've noticed that when updates are being made to something - holes appear in other places.  My inbox should not be one of those places.  Microsoft....test, test, test before launching what you think is the best idea you ever had.  This is not the time or place to be messing around with stuff that should be secure EVEN if the service is FREE!  Why would I ever want to switch to premium and pay for this nightmare?

Thank you for all the responses - at least I'm not alone in spam-alot.

We already have witnessed how that goes around here. Take a look in the forums. Take a look at the complaints. I've been asking for help from "support" for months now and yet, to no avail, I'm still having the same issue a year and a half later.

I'm getting more and more spam in my inbox a day.

I've blocked, I've reported as phishing, I've ticked off the safe sender box. Nothing has worked. 

No one at Microsoft cares!

Go figure, they blocked another one of my accounts. 

Guess what? I'm not going away!

Thanks. Will give that a try. I have an enormous need to know why this happens all of a sudden for many users . Any ideas or even a guess?

Another person here that also had their filters stop working yesterday.  Made no changes to my settings and now have 100+ junk mails in my inbox.  It appears that most of them are from a vertical-aff.com and also included a red balloon along with random characters.  I saw a post that suggested that if you're getting lots of junk mail from just a single domain that you can add them to your safe list, then create a rule that will delete everything from that domain.  Sounds completely counter intuitive, but the rules won't run on emails that "goto" your junk folder.  I haven't gotten a junk mail for the last 15min, (I was getting a ton every couple of min) so hopefully that will keep my inbox clean for now.