User manual MCAFEE TOTAL PROTECTION 2008

[. . . ] User Guide i Contents McAfee Total Protection 3 McAfee SecurityCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 SecurityCenter features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Using SecurityCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Updating SecurityCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Under Spam protection, click Off. Tip: Remember to click On under Spam protection so that you are protected against spam. 130 McAfee Total Protection Setting filtering options Adjust Anti-Spam's filtering options if you want to filter messages more aggressively, specify what to look for in a message, and look for specific character sets when analyzing spam. Filtering level The filtering level dictates how aggressively your e-mail is filtered. For example, if spam is not filtered and your filtering level is set to Medium, you can change it to High. However, if the filtering level is set to High, only e-mail messages from senders in your friends list are accepted: all others are filtered. Special filters A filter specifies what Anti-Spam looks for in an e-mail message. Special filters detect e-mail messages that contain hidden text, embedded images, intentional HTML formatting errors, and other techniques commonly used by spammers. Since e-mail messages that have these attributes are usually spam, the special filters are enabled by default. For example, if you want to receive e-mail messages that contain embedded images, you may need to disable the special image filter. Character Sets Anti-Spam can look for specific character sets when analyzing spam. Character sets are used to represent a language, including the language's alphabet, numeric digits, and other symbols. If you are receiving spam in Greek, you can filter all messages that contain the Greek character set. Be careful not to filter character sets for languages in which you receive legitimate e-mail. For example, if you only want to filter messages in Italian, you might select Western European because Italy is in Western Europe. However, if you receive legitimate e-mail in English, selecting Western European will also filter messages in English and any other languages in the Western European character set. In this case, you cannot filter messages in Italian only. Note: Filtering messages that contain characters from a specific character set is for advanced users. Change the filtering level You can change how aggressively you want to filter your e-mail. For example, if legitimate messages are filtered, you can lower the filtering level. How? Chapter 26 McAfee Total Protection 131 1. On the SecurityCenter Home pane, click E-mail & IM. In the E-mail & IM information area, click Configure. On the E-mail & IM Configuration pane, under Spam protection, click Advanced. [. . . ] Then, under Partner Links, select your partner or provider to access McAfee Virtual Technician. Note: To install and run McAfee Virtual Technician, you must log in to your computer as a Windows Administrator. If you don't, MVT may not be able to resolve your issues. For information about logging in as a Windows Administrator, see the Windows Help. [. . . ]