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Using McAfee VirusScan

McAfee® VirusScan® software version 10.0

Click

Enable WormStopper (recommended)

By default, the following detailed options are enabled:

Pattern matching to detect suspect activity

Alerting when e-mail is sent to 40 or more recipients

Alerting when 5 or more e-mails are sent within 30 seconds

NOTE

If you modify the number of recipients or seconds for

monitoring sent e-mails, it might result in invalid detections.

McAfee recommends that you click

setting. Otherwise, click

your setting.

This option can be automatically enabled after the first time a potential worm

is detected (see

Managing potential worms on page 24

Automatic blocking of suspect outbound e-mails

Figure 2-3. Advanced ActiveShield Options - E-mail tab

(Figure

2-3).

to retain the default

to change the default setting to

Yes

for details):

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