Filter Rules Dialog

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The 'Edit Filter Rules' Dialog allows you to create new rules, edit existing rules, copy rules and change the evaluation order. You can open this Dialog by clicking the 'Edit rules...' button in the Filter Rules pane on the Search Screen.

Edit predefined Filters

Phex comes with 3 pre-defined filters: An adult filter, a known spam filter and a scam file filter. The third blocks those files which are most often used by spammers or which can easily be used to invade your privacy, for example files ending in .asx or .wma. To see what exactly these predefined filters do, just select "edit" in the filter-rule pane. Then select one of the filters and click the "edit"-button in here. You will now see the rules with which the respective filter was created.

If you like to change the filter conditions of a pre-defined filter, you need to 'Copy' the filter and create your own version of it.

The only option you can change on a pre-defined filter is to enable it permanently for all new searches. Select the filter rule click on 'Change' and for a pre-defined filter the 'Rule Wizard' opens on its last page with all options disabled, except the 'Enable rule permanently' option. Check this option and close the Dialog with 'Finish'. Now the rule is applied to all new searches.

See also

Filtering adult content from searches

Filter System walk-through - HowTo create your own filters.