McAfee MIS09EMB3RAA User Guide - Page 117

115 CHAPTER 22 McAfee Anti-Spam Anti-Spam (formerly called SpamKiller) stops unsolicited e-mail from entering your Inbox by examining your incoming e-mail, and then marking it as spam (e-mail soliciting you to purchase something) or phishing (e-mail soliciting you to provide personal information to a potentially fraudulent Web site). Anti-Spam then filters the spam e-mail and moves it to the McAfee Anti-Spam folder. If your friends sometimes send you legitimate e-mail that may appear as spam, you can ensure that it is not filtered by adding their e-mail addresses to Anti-Spam's friends list. You can also customize how spam is detected. For example, you can filter messages more aggressively, specify what to look for in a message, and create your own filters. Anti-Spam also protects you if you try to access a potentially fraudulent Web site through a link in an e-mail message. When you click a link to a potentially fraudulent Web site, you are redirected to the Phishing filter safe page. If there are Web sites that you do not want filtered, you can add them to the whitelist (Web sites in this list are not filtered). Anti-Spam works with various e-mail programs, such as Yahoo®, MSN®/Hotmail®, Windows® Mail and Live™ Mail, Microsoft® Outlook® and Outlook Express, and Mozilla Thunderbird™, as well as with various e-mail accounts, such as POP3, POP3 Webmail, and MAPI (Microsoft Exchange Server). If you use a browser to read your e-mail, you must add your Webmail account to Anti-Spam. All other accounts are configured automatically and you do not have to add them to Anti-Spam. You do not have to configure Anti-Spam after you have installed it; however, if you are an advanced user, you may want to fine-tune its advanced spam and phish protection features according to your preferences. Note: SecurityCenter reports critical and non-critical protection problems as soon as it detects them. If you need help diagnosing your protection problems, you can run McAfee Virtual Technician.