Kaspersky PURE User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

U S E R G U I D EMark as Spam;Mark as Not Spam;Add to the list of allowed senders;Add to the list of blocked senders.SCANNING LINKS IN MESSAGESAnti-Spam can check the URLs in mail messages to identify the ones included in the lists of suspicious web addresses orphishing web addresses. These lists are included into the product package of Kaspersky PURE. If a phishing orsuspicious link is detected in a message, or if phishing elements are detected in the message body, this message isrecognized as spam.To enable URL checks using the databases of suspicious and phishing addresses:1. Open the main application window.2. In the top part of the window, click the Settings link.3. In the left part of the window, in the Protection Center section, select the Anti-Spam component.4. Click the Settings button in the Security level section in the right part of the window.5. In the window that opens, on the Exact methods tab, in the Consider message as spam section, check the Ifit contains URLs from the database of suspicious URLs and If it contains phishing elements boxes.DETECTING SPAM BY PHRASES AND ADDRESSES. CREATING LISTSYou can create lists of allowed, blocked and obscene key phrases as well as lists of allowed and blocked senderaddresses and the list of your addresses. If these lists are used, Anti-Spam analyzes every message to check if itcontains the phrases added to the lists and the addresses of mail sender and recipients to check if they match therecords in address lists. Once the sought phrase or address is found, Anti-Spam identifies such message as useful mailor spam depending upon the list where the phrase or address is present.The following mail will be recognized as spam:messages containing blocked or obscene phrases with total weighting coefficient exceeding 100;messages sent from a blocked address or not addressed to you directly.The following messages will be recognized as useful mail:messages containing allowed phrases;messages sent from an allowed address.Masks for key phrases and sender addressesYou can use phrase masks in the lists of allowed, blocked and obscene phrases. The lists of allowed and blockedaddresses, and the list of trusted addresses support address masks.Mask is a template string that a phrase or an address is compared against. Certain symbols in a mask are used torepresent others: * substitutes any sequence of characters, ? – any single character. If a mask uses such wildcards, itcan match several phrases or addresses (see examples).116