McAfee VirusScan 10.0, User Manual

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User Guide 45
Adding filters
Match variations
- allows SpamKiller to detect common deliberate
misspellings used by spammers. For example, the word “common” might
be misspelled as “c0mm0n” to evade filters.
Regular Expressions (RegEx)
- allows you to specify character patterns
used in filter conditions. To test a character pattern, click
Test RegEx
.
Case-sensitive
- this option only appears for conditions in which you typed
a condition value. If you select this checkbox, SpamKiller distinguishes
between upper-case and lower-case letters in the value you typed.
d
Click
OK
.
4
Create another filter condition as follows, or go to Step 5 to select a filter action.
a
Click
Add
, and then create the filter condition. Click
OK
when you are
finished creating the filter condition.
Both filter conditions appear in the Filter Conditions list and are joined by
and
. The
and
indicates that SpamKiller looks for messages that match both
filter conditions. If you want SpamKiller to look for messages that match
either one of the conditions, change
and
to
or
by clicking
and
, and then
selecting
or
from the box that appears.
b
Click
Add
to create another condition, or go to Step 5 to select a filter action.
If you created a total of three or more filter conditions, you can group filter
conditions to create clauses. For examples of grouping, see Grouping Filters
in the online Help.
To group filter conditions, select a filter condition, and click
Group
. To
ungroup filter conditions, select a grouped condition, and click
Ungroup
.
5
Select a filter action from the
Action
box. The filter action tells SpamKiller how
to process messages found by that filter. For more information, see Filter
Actions in the online Help.
6
Click
Advanced
to select advanced filter options (selecting advanced options is
not required). For more information, see Advanced Filter Options in the online
Help.
7
Click
OK
when you are finished creating the filter.
NOTE
To edit a condition, select it and click
Edit
. To delete a
condition, select it and click
Delete
.