I finally snapped and started using thunderbird email filters. I have avoided this as experience with Outlook taught me that they were just a pain. Outlook (98?) used to randomly disable them for no apparent reason and I'd have to monitor them all the time. I think I managed to upgrade from the version of outlook that loaded new email messages before it loaded the filters, meaning the mail waiting before outlook was started up was not filtered.
I am getting dozens of virus notifications a day so I decided to create a Thunderbird filter to store them away somewhere. The filter settings in thunderbird allow you to mark a message as already read and, take this microsoft, THE TASKBAR NOTIFIER DOES NOT TRIGGER. No being hastled and having to restart Outlook to get rid of the notifier icon! The filter has been running for a day and so far no sign of it silently being disabled.
I have given up on the thunderbird junk filter as an email classifier for this kind of thing: it just does not learn that {Isolated} in a header means I couldn't care less (other people here deal with that). Real spam is handled elsewhere, the notifications from the spam filter are my spam.
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