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6.4. Email Protection
The Email Protection component covers the following two security services: Email Scanner and Anti-Spam:
Email Scanner: One of the most common sources of viruses and trojans is via email. Phishing and
spam make email an even greater source of risks. Free email accounts are more likely to receive
such malicious emails (as they rarely employ anti-spam technology), and home users rely quite
heavily on such email. Also home users, surfing unknown sites and filling in online forms with
personal data (such as their email address), increase exposure to attacks via email. Companies
usually use corporate email accounts and employ anti-spam filters etc, to reduce the risk. The Email
Protection component is responsible for scanning every email message sent or received; whenever a
virus is detected in an email, it is removed to the Virus Vault immediately. The component can also
filter out certain types of email attachments, and add a certification text to infection-free messages.
Email Scanner is not intended for server platforms!
Anti-Spam checks all incoming email messages and marks unwanted emails as spam (Spam refers
to unsolicited email, mostly advertising a product or service that is mass mailed to a huge number of
email addresses at the same time, filling recipients’ mail boxes. Spam does not refer to legitimate
commercial email for which consumers have given their consent.). Anti-Spam can modify the subject
of the email (that has been identified as spam) by adding a special text string. You can then easily
filter your emails in your email client. The Anti-Spam component uses several analysis methods to
process each email message, offering maximum possible protection from unwanted email messages.
Anti-Spam uses a regularly updated database for the detection of spam. It is also possible to use
RBL servers (public databases of "known spammer" email addresses) and to manually add email
addresses to your Whitelist (never mark as spam) and Blacklist (always mark as spam).
Dialog controls
To switch between both sections of the dialog, you can simply click anywhere in the respective service panel.
The panel then gets highlighted in a lighter shade of blue. In both sections of the dialog you can find the
following controls. Their functionality is the same whether they belong to one security service or another
(Email Scanner or Anti-Spam):