McAfee MIS08EMB3RUA User Guide - Page 135

Chapter 26 McAfee Internet Security 133 Using personal filters A filter specifies what Anti-Spam looks for in an e-mail message. When spam is found, the message is marked as spam and left in your Inbox or moved to the McAfee Anti-Spam folder. For more information about how spam is handled, see Modify how a message is processed and marked (page 138). By default, Anti-Spam uses many filters; however, you can create new filters or edit existing ones to fine-tune which messages Anti-Spam identifies as spam. For example, if you add a filter that contains the word mortgage, Anti-Spam filters messages with the word mortgage. Do not create filters for common words that appear in legitimate e-mail messages, because then even non-spam e-mail will be filtered. After you create a filter, you can edit it if you find that the filter is still not detecting some spam. For example, if you created a filter to look for the word viagra in the subject of the message, but you are still receiving messages that contain the word viagra because it's appearing in the body of the message, change the filter to look for viagra in the message body instead of the message subject. Regular expressions (RegEx) are special characters and sequences that can also be used in personal filters; however, McAfee only recommends using regular expressions if you are an advanced user. If you are not familiar with regular expressions, or you want more information about how to use them, you can research regular expressions on the Web (for example, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression). Add a personal filter You can add filters to fine-tune which messages Anti-Spam identifies as spam. 1 Open the Spam Protection pane. How? 1. On the SecurityCenter Home pane, click E-mail & IM. 2. In the E-mail & IM information area, click Configure. 3. On the E-mail & IM Configuration pane, under Spam protection, click Advanced. 2 On the Spam Protection pane, click Personal Filters. 3 Click Add. 4 Specify what the personal filter looks for (page 134) in an e-mail message. 5 Click OK.