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E-mail scanning
In this section, you can set these basics for incoming and/or outgoing e-mail
messages:
·
Check incoming e-mail
(
on by default
) - mark to switch on/off the option of
scanning of all e-mail messages delivered to your e-mail client
·
Check outgoing e-mail
(
off by default
) - mark to switch on/off the option of
scanning of all e-mails sent from your account
·
Modify subject of virus infected messages
(
off by default
) - if you want to
be warned the scanned e-mail message was detected as infectious, mark this
item and fill in the desired text into the text field. This text will then be added
to the "Subject" field for each detected e-mail message for easier identification
and filtering. The default value is ***VIRUS*** which we recommend to keep.
Scanning properties
In this section, you can specify how the e-mail messages will be scanned:
·
Use Heuristics
(
on by default
) - check to use
heuristics detection method
when scanning e-mail messages. When this option is on, you can filter e-mail
attachments not only by extension but also the actual contents of the
attachment will be considered. The filtering can be set in the
Mail Filtering
dialog.
·
Report Potentially Unwanted Programs and Spyware threats
(
on by
default
) - check to activate the
Anti-Spyware
engine, and scan for spyware
as well as for viruses.
Spyware
represents a questionable malware category:
even though it usually represents a security risk, some of these programs can
be installed intentionally. We recommend to keep this feature activated as it
increases your computer security.
·
Report enhanced set of Potentially Unwanted Programs
(
off by default
) -
mark to detect extended package of
spyware
: programs that are perfectly ok
and harmless when acquired from the manufacturer directly, but can be
misused for malicious purposes later. This is an additional measure that
increases your computer security even more, however it can possibly block
legal programs, and is therefore switched off by default.
·
Scan inside archives
(
on by default
) - check to scan contents of archives
attached to e-mail messages.
·
Enable thorough scanning
(
off by default
) - in specific situations (
e.g.
suspicious of your computer being infected by an virus or exploit
) you may
check this option to activate the most thorough scanning algorithms that will
scan even those areas of your computer that can hardly get infected, just to
be absolutely sure. Remember though that this method is rather time
consuming.
