Filter E-Mail
E-mail is the biggest use of the internet. More people regularly use
e-mail than use the internet to view web pages. It is therefore one of
the main targets for virus creators to infect e-mail software and parts
of a computer that e-mail relies on. The fact that e-mail involves direct
communication means that it is one of the most effective means of distribution,
particularly for a virus which is usually sent unbeknownst to the sender.
Many of the major recent e-mail viruses are known as worms. They infect
mail software and send themselves to a variety of e-mail addresses based
on the content of the host's address book. The chances are that if someone
who is not very web-literate receives the virus, the offending attachment
will be opened because the e-mail is supposedly from a trusted source.
Software is available to counter either of these possible problems,
and the software of choice for the experts at Virus Scan Software is the built-in
mail filter of RAV Anti-virus. Together with the overall virus protection, it
has settings in place to strengthen e-mail protection in particular. Therefore,
our software of choice for e-mail filtering is:
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