Using Personal Filters - McAfee INTERNET SECURITY SUITE 2008 User Manual

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
message is processed and marked
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
2. In the E-mail & IM information area, click Configure.
3. On the E-mail & IM Configuration pane, under
protection, click Advanced.
2
On the Spam Protection pane, click
3
Click Add.
4
Specify what the personal filter looks for
e-mail message.
5
Click OK.
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