User Manual

124 McAfee Total Protection
Edit a personal filter
Edit existing filters to fine-tune which messages are identified as
spam.
1 Open the Spam Protection pane.
How?
1. On the SecurityCenter Home pane, click
E-mail & IM.
2. In the E-mail & IM information area, click
Configure.
3. On the E-mail & IM Configuration pane, under
Spam
protection is enabled, click Advanced.
2 On the Spam Protection pane, click
Personal Filters.
3 Select the filter you want to edit, and then click Edit.
4 Specify what the personal filter looks for (page 124) in an
e-mail message.
5 Click
OK.
Remove a personal filter
You can permanently remove filters that you no longer want to
use.
1 Open the Spam Protection pane.
How?
1. On the SecurityCenter Home pane, click
E-mail & IM.
2. In the E-mail & IM information area, click
Configure.
3. On the E-mail & IM Configuration pane, under
Spam
protection is enabled, click Advanced.
2 On the Spam Protection pane, click
Personal Filters.
3 Select the filter you want to remove, and then click
Remove.
4 Click
OK.
Specify a personal filter
This table describes what a personal filter looks for in an e-mail.
To... Do this...
Specify the e-mail
part to filter
In the
Email part list, click an entry to
determine whether the filter looks for the words
or phrases in the e-mail subject, body, sender,
header, or the recipient.
Under the
Email part list, click an entry to
determine whether the filter looks for e-mail
that contains, or does not contain, the words or
phrases you specify.