Overview - Manage Spam and Phishing Emails

COMING SOON! Microsoft Defender's weekly digest and new report button gives you control over quarantined junk messages.

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Faculty, Staff, Students

Terminology

• Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is the antivirus/anti-phishing feature built into your Microsoft 365 subscription for both Windows and macOS. Defender monitors your account and quarantines suspicious messages. 
• Microsoft Defender quarantine report is a weekly email from quarantine@ecu.edu that lists your quarantined messages. You can visit the quarantine page to review, release or delete some messages. Known phishing messages cannot be released.
• Report button in Exchange email allows you to report phishing emails or junk not quarantined by Defender. This button is located in your Outlook menu ribbon. 

Manage quarantined messages

1. Access this web page anytime through security.microsoft.com/quarantine. This link can also be found in your weekly digest email as shown here: 
   
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2. Some options like, Review Message, Request Release and Block Sender, are available in the quarantine email.
   
    
3. Report options include: Release,* Request release,* Delete, Preview message, View message headers, Allow sender and Block sender.

*Some messages, such as "High Confidence Phish" messages, cannot be released.  

Report phishing or junk

Occasionally, you might receive messages that need to be reported as a phishing or junk message. This is easy through the Microsoft Report button located in the Exchange/Outlook menu ribbon or the Report feature in the right-click menu.