Fortunately your Outlook.com email account has a setting that you can enable which can help with this. Our tutorial below will show you how to enable an option that will automatically block attachments, pictures and links that are sent by someone who you haven’t previously marked as a safe sender.
Only Accept Attachments, Pictures and Links from Safe Senders in Outlook.com
The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of Google Chrome. By completing the steps in this article you will be blocking attachments, pictures and links from anyone that isn’t on your Safe Senders and domains list. Note that this can also block legitimate attachments and links from people that you know if they haven’t been added to your Safe sender list, so you may want to start adding safe contacts to this list so that you can receive things from them. Step 1: Open a Web browser window and navigate to Outlook.com. You will need to sign into your Outlook.com account if you aren’t already signed in. Step 2: Click the gear icon at the top-right corner of the window.
Step 3: Click the View all Outlook settings link at the bottom of the column.
Step 4: Select the Junk email option in the center column.
Step 5: Scroll to the bottom of the menu and check the box to the left of Block attachments, pictures and links from anyone not in my Safe senders and domains list. Click the Save button at the top-right of the menu when you’re finished to apply the changes.
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