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Anti-Spam
This section provides the decription and settings of eScan's Anti-Spam for scanning of spam / junk emails.
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Description
Anti-Spam is the third module of the eScan for ISS. This module filters all your junk and spam e mails by using the NILP technology and sends content warnings to specified recipients.
This page provides you with options required to configure the module. You can configure the settings from the following 2 sections:
Configuration
This section displays the following information.
- Anti-Spam Status : It displays the status of whether Anti-Spam module is started or stopped.
- Mail Phishing Filter : It displays the status of Mail phishing filter.
- Action : It displays the type of action taken by Anti-Spam module.
Start/Stop:
Click an appropriate option to enable or disable Anti Spam module.
Settings:
When you click this button, the Anti-Spam Settings window appears. On the Anti-Spam Settings window, you have two tabs – Advanced and Disclaimer, which are as follows:
- Note: On below the screen of all the tabs contains four buttons — Default, OK, Cancel, and Apply, which you have to use after configuring the settings based on your requirement.
- - Default: Click this button to apply the default settings.
- - OK: Click this button after you click the Apply button to apply the configured settings.
- - Cancel: Click this button to cancel the configured settings or to close the window.
- - Apply: Click this button to apply the configured settings.
- Note: On below the screen of all the tabs contains four buttons — Default, OK, Cancel, and Apply, which you have to use after configuring the settings based on your requirement.
- Advanced
This section provides you with options for configuring the general e mail options, spam filter configuration, and tagging e-mails in Anti Spam.
This tab helps you configure the following settings:
- Send Original Mail to User: [Default] This check box is selected by default. eScan creates Spam folder within the e mail client. When an e mail is tagged as Spam, it is moved to this folder. Select this check box, if you want to send original e mail that is tagged as spam to the recipient as well.
- Do not check content of Replied or Forwarded Mails: Select this check box, if you want to ensure that eScan does not check the contents of e mails that you have either replied or forwarded to other recipients.
- Check Content of Outgoing mails: Select this check box, if you want Anti-Spam to check outgoing e mails for restricted content.
--> Phrases: You can click the Phrases button to open the Phrases dialog box. This dialog box helps you configure additional e mail-related options. In addition, it allows you to specify a list of words that the user can either allow or block. This list is called the user specified whitelist. You can specify certain words or phrases, so that mails containing those words or phrases in the subject, header, or body are recognized as spam and are quarantined or deleted. All the fields are available only when you select the Enable E-mail Content Scanning check box. The dialog box uses the following color codes to categorize e-mails.
>> User specified whitelist of words/phrases: (Color Code: GREEN) Click this option to list the words or phrases that are present in the whitelist. A phrase that is added to the whitelist cannot be edited, enabled, or disabled.
>> User specified List of Blocked words/phrases: (Color Code: RED) Click this option to list the words or phrases that are defined in block list.
>> User specified words/phrases disabled: (Color Code: GRAY) Click this option to list the words or phrases that are defined excluded during scans. The options in the Phrases to Check dialog box are disabled by default.
- Spam Filter Configuration: This section provides you with options for configuring the spam filter. All options in this section are selected by default.
--> Check for Mail Phishing: [Default] Select this check box, if you want Anti-Spam to check for fraudulent e-mails and quarantine them.
--> Treat Mails with Chinese /Korean character set as SPAM: [Default] When this check box is selected, eScan scans e mails with Chinese or Korean characters. This check is based on the research data conducted by MicroWorld’s various spam e mail samples collected from around the globe. From these samples, it was observed that spammers often use Chinese or Korean characters in their e mails.
--> Treat Subject with more than 5 whitespaces as SPAM: [Default] In its research, MicroWorld found that spam e-mails usually contain more than five consecutive white spaces. When this check box is selected, Anti Spam checks the spacing between characters or words in the subject line of e mails and treats e mails with more than five whitespaces in their subject lines as spam e mails.
--> Check content of HTML mails: [Default] Select this check box when you want Anti-Spam to scan e-mails in HTML format along with textual content.
--> Quarantine Advertisement mails: [Default] Select this check box when you want Anti-Spam to check for advertisement types of e-mails and quarantine them.
>> Advanced: Click this button to open the Advanced Spam Filtering Options dialog box. This dialog box helps you configure the following advanced options for controlling spam.
>> Delete entire eMail if any blocked attachment is found: [Default] Select this check box if you want to delete an e mail if it contains an attachment with an extension type that is blocked by eScan.
>> Quarantine eMail if attachments are not scanned: Select this check box if you want to quarantine an entire e mail if it contains an attachment that is not scanned by Mail Anti Virus.
>> Quarantine Attachments if they are not scanned: Select this check box if you want to quarantine attachments that are not scanned by Mail Anti Virus.
>> Exclude Attachments (Whitelist): This list is empty by default. You can add file names and file extensions that should not be blocked by eScan. You can also configure eScan to allow specific files even though if the file type is blocked. For example, if you have listed *.PIF in the list of blocked attachments and you need to allow an attachment with the name ABC, you can add Abc.pif to the Exclude Attachments list. Add *.PIF files in this section will allow all *.PIF to be delivered. MicroWorld recommends you to add the entire file name like ABCD.PIF.
- Action: This section helps you configure the actions to be performed on infected e mails.
--> Disinfect: [Default] Click this option if you want Mail Anti-Virus to disinfect infected e mails or attachments.
--> Delete: Click this option if you want Mail Anti-Virus to delete infected e mails or attachments.
--> Quarantine Infected Files: [Default] Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to quarantine infected e mails or attachments. The default path for storing quarantined e mails or attachments is C:\Program Files\eScan\QUARANT. However, you can specify a different path for storing quarantined files, if required.
- Port Settings for eMail: You can also specify the ports for incoming and outgoing e mails, so that eScan can scan the e mails sent or received through those ports.
--> Outgoing Mail (SMTP): [Default: 25] You need to specify a port number for SMTP.
--> Incoming Mail (POP3): [Default: 110] You need to specify a port number for POP3.
--> Scan Outgoing Mails: Select this check box if you want the Mail Anti-Virus to scan outgoing e-mails.
- Archiving
This screen helps you configure settings for archiving e mails and e mail attachments.
The following configuration options are available on this screen:
- Archive eMails: This option helps you archive or back up all scanned e mails that you have sent or received. Mail Anti-Virus provides you with the facility of backing up your e mails to a given folder. The default path for storing archived e mails is %appdata%\MicroWorld\eScan\Archive. By default, the eMail Archive Directory field, View Archived eMails button, and Browse button appears dimmed. It is available only when you select the Archive eMails check box. Select the Archive eMails check box to specify the path of the backup folder. You can type or click the Browse button to select the path. Click the View Archived eMails button, to view the list of archived e-mails.
- Archive Attachments: Select this check box if you want to archive or back up all sent or received e mail attachments to a given folder. However, to specify the path of the backup folder, you need to select the Archive Attachments check box. By default, the Attachments Archive Directory check box, Do not Archive attachments of type check box, and Browse button appears dimmed. These fields are available only when you select the Archive Attachments check box. The default path for storing archived e-mail attachments is %AppData%\MicroWorld\eScan\Archive\Attachments. At times, you may not require e-mail attachments of a specific file type. In that case, you can excluded certain file types, such as *.VCF, *.HTM, and *.HTML, from being archived by adding them to the Do not Archive attachments of type list.
Notification:
You can click this button to open the Notification Settings dialog box, which helps you configure the notification settings for the Mail Anti Virus module. By configuring this module, you can send e mails to specific recipients when malicious code is detected in an e-mail or e-mail attachment. This dialog box helps you configure the notification settings for sending alerts and warning messages to the senders or recipients of an infected message.
You can configure the following notification settings:
- Virus Alerts
--> Show Alert Dialog-box: [Default] Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to alert you when it detects a malicious object in an e-mail.
--> Attachment Removed Warning To Sender: [Default] Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to send a warning message to the sender of an infected attachment. Mail Anti-Virus sends this e-mail when it encounters a virus-infected attachment in an e-mail. The content of the e-mail that is sent is displayed in the preview box.
--> Attachment Removed Warning To Recipient: [Default] Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to send a warning message to the recipient when it removes an infected attachment. The content of the e-mail that is sent is displayed in the preview box.
--> Virus Warning To Sender: [Default] Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to send a virus-warning message to the sender. The content of the e-mail that is sent is displayed in the preview box.
--> Virus Warning To Recipient: [Default] Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to send a virus-warning message to the recipient. The content of the e-mail that is sent is displayed in the preview box.
--> Content Warning To Sender: [Default] Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to send a content warning message to the sender. The content of the e-mail that is sent is displayed in the preview box.
--> Content Warning To Recipient: [Default] Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to send a content warning message to the recipient. The content of the e-mail that is sent is displayed in the preview box.
- Warning Mails: You can configure this setting if you want Mail Anti Virus to send warning e mails and alerts to a given sender or recipient. The default sender (From field) is postmaster and the default recipient (To field) is postmaster.
- Delete Mails From User: You can configure eScan to automatically delete mails that have been sent by specific users. For this, you need to add the mail addresses of such users to the Delete Mails From User list. By default, the Delete Mails From User section fields are unavailable, it is available only when you type in some text in the Delete Mails From User field and add mail addresses.
- Reports
This section displays the following information:
--> Total Mails Scanned: It shows the total number of e-mails scanned by Mail Anti Virus on a real-time basis.
--> Total Infected Objects: It shows the total number of infected objects found by Mail Anti Virus on a real-time basis.
In addition, you can view the following reports:
View Archived Mails:
You can click this button to open the View Archived eMails window. (For more information on archived e-mail settings, refer Archived tab under Mail Anti-Virus Settings window.)
View Report:
You can click this button to open the Report for Mail Anti Virus window. This window displays the summary of infected e mails and the action taken by Mail Anti Virus on such e mails for a given range of dates in a tabular format when you click the Generate Report button.
