User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

Mail Anti-Virus 99
To modify the current security level:
1. Open the application settings window and select Mail Anti-Virus under
Protection.
2. Click on Customize under Security Level (see Figure 25).
3. Edit mail protection parameters in the resulting window and click OK.
8.2. Configuring Mail Anti-Virus
A series of settings govern how your email is scanned. The settings can be
broken down into the following groups:
• Settings that define the protected group (see 8.2.1 on pg. 99) of emails
• Settings defining the use of heuristic methods(cf. Section 8.2.4, p. 121)
• Email scan settings for Microsoft Office Outlook (see 8.2.2 on pg. 101)
and The Bat! (see 8.2.3 on pg. 102)
• settings that define actions for dangerous email objects (see 8.2.5 on
pg. 105)
The following sections examine these settings in detail.
8.2.1. Selecting a protected email group
Mail Anti-Virus allows you to select exactly what group of emails to scan for
dangerous objects.
By default, the component protects email at the Recommended security level,
which means scanning both incoming and outgoing email. When you first begin
working with the program, you are advised to scan outgoing email, since it is
possible that there are worms on your computer that use email as a channel for
distributing themselves. This will help avoid the possibility of unmonitored mass
mailings of infected emails from your computer.
If you are certain that the emails that you are sending do not contain dangerous
objects, you can disable the outgoing email scan. To do so:
1. Open the application settings window and select Mail Anti-Virus under
Protection.
2. Click the Customize button in the Security Level area (cf. Figure 25).
3. In the window that opens (see Figure 26), select Only incoming
email in the Scope section.