User Guide

Kaspersky Anti-Spam Operation and Filtering Philosophy 35
4.4. Preinstalled filter profiles
Kaspersky Anti-Spam is installed on your computer with a set of preinstalled
profiles that allow spam filtering to start immediately after the installation.
The following filtering mode is applied by default:
• The medium ("standard") severity level is applied during the evaluation of
the spam attributes (common profile
Spam Detection Standard is
executed);
• The detected messages will be delivered to the recipients; in this case
they are labeled in the
Subject header.
The components of the preinstalled set of filter profiles and the logic of the
operations they perform are described below. Comparison of the alternative
profiles is also provided.
The administrator can change the default settings and setup user-dependent
processing modes of the detected messages (reaction to spam) (see para 4.4.2,
page 39).
Read the
readme-profiles file carefully. This file contains the latest
information about preinstalled profiles including information about
changes that may have taken place after this guide had been prepared.
4.4.1. Stages of the preinstalled filter
profiles operation
Processing of each message includes three stages:
1. detection of formal spam attributes: analysis of message headers;
2. message evaluation, additional checks, if required;
3. processing of the messages identified as spam, possible spam, etc.
A separate profile is responsible for each of these stages. One common profile is
provided for the first stage but you may select profiles that will work at the
second and the third stages.