{"id":232,"date":"2018-06-05T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2018-06-05T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:59:10","slug":"masses-of-emails-from-gmail-team-re-virus-or-a-suspicious-attachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/masses-of-emails-from-gmail-team-re-virus-or-a-suspicious-attachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Masses of emails from &#8216;Gmail Team&#8217; re: virus or a suspicious attachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a trickle of emails from Gmail Team (<span class=\"qW\">mail<wbr \/>-noreply@g<wbr \/>oogle.com<\/span>) saying a email &#8216;contained a virus or a suspicious attachment&#8217; and I just delete them and move on.<\/p>\n<p>Well yesterday afternoon it was open season and in the space of a few minutes I received several hundred of these emails. They were coming quicker than I could delete them. They were to my gmail address and I don&#8217;t know whether it was my turn to be pulled out of the spammer&#8217;s hat or what had triggered the deluge, but the situation was rapidly becoming unmanageable.<\/p>\n<h4>Gmail&#8217;s filtering to the rescue!<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>In Gmail click the cog top right and choose &#8216;Settings&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>In settings choose &#8216;Filters and Blocked Addresses&#8217; from the tabs along the top<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8216;Create a new filter&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>In the &#8216;from&#8217; box put Gmail Team&#8217;s address &#8216;<span class=\"qW\">mail<wbr \/>-noreply@g<wbr \/>oogle.com<\/span>&#8216;<\/li>\n<li>In the &#8216;to&#8217; box put the email address getting all these emails<\/li>\n<li>In the &#8216;Includes the words&#8217; box put &#8216;<span class=\"qW\">contained a virus or a suspicious attachment<wbr \/>. It was therefore not fetched from your account<\/span>&#8216;<\/li>\n<li>In the next pane click delete from the choices presented to you, OK <span class=\"qW\">and you are done.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only caveat is that when people send zip files or similar containing javascript or other forms of code &#8211; that is, files you are expecting, Google will treat them in the same way and they will be deleted. When you know you are being sent such a file it is best to check in your mailbox on the server and download it from there.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth repeating the process for other email address handled by your Google account.<\/p>\n<p>By the next morning the deluge had abated although the &#8216;bin&#8217; contained nearly a thousand more such mails! Once these were permanently removed the flow was back to the customary trickle.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_233\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/filteredemails.jpg\" alt=\"Filtering and blocked addresses in Gmail\" width=\"617\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/filteredemails.jpg 617w, https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/filteredemails-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/filteredemails-131x200.jpg 131w, https:\/\/www.graphicz.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/filteredemails-263x400.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filtering and blocked addresses in Gmail<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a trickle of emails from Gmail Team (mail-noreply@google.com) saying a email &#8216;contained a virus or a suspicious attachment&#8217; and I just delete them and move on. 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