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Control attachments to your incoming email
Block attachments with
multiple extensions
Worms commonly use multiple extensions. Enabling this option will
block multiple extension attachments in incoming emails. It prevents
infection from new worms, and thus protects your system. Common
multiple extensions are .exe, .scr, .mpg, etc.
Block emails crafted to
exploit vulnerability
Enabling this option will block emails, which contain vulnerability like
MIME, IFRAME, etc. Sending an email into broken parts is known as
partial mail. Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook have an
option of breaking message into separate parts.
Enable Attachment Control – Enable attachment blocking in incoming email.
All attachments Selecting this option will delete all the attachments in incoming emails.
This option is only recommended for users who require high security
or prefer text based emails only.
User specified extensions This choice allows you to specify extensions of the files (attachments)
to be blocked. On selecting this option you can either use provided
default extension list or enter the file extensions of your choice.
To add your own extension follow the below given steps:
1. Select User specified extensions.
2. Press Customize.
3. Type the extension name. For example: ‘mpg’.
4. Click Add to add the extension in the list.
5. Click Ok to save the settings.
Prevent new worm infection filtering email clients
Email
clients allowed to
send mails
Total Security Email protection is by default configured to support
most of the popularly used email clients like Eudora. If your email
client is different from the ones provided in the list, then you can
simply add the same in the trusted email client list. To add email
client, perform the following steps:
1. Select Enable trusted email clients.
2. Press Configure button.
3. Click Add to add the email client into trusted email client
list.
4. Click Ok to save the changes.
5. Press Default to load the default email client list.