McAfee MIS08EMB3RUA User Guide - Page 119

117 CHAPTER 23 McAfee Anti-Spam Anti-Spam (formerly called SpamKiller) stops unsolicited e-mail from entering you 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 POP3, POP3 Webmail, Yahoo®, MSN®/Hotmail®, Windows® Live™ Mail, and MAPI (Microsoft Exchange Server) accounts. 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. 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. In this chapter Anti-Spam features 118 Setting up your Webmail accounts 119 Setting up friends 123 Configuring spam detection 129 Filtering e-mail 137 Working with filtered e-mail 141 Configuring phishing protection 143