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Intego Personal Antispam X4 User`s Manual

1. Learning Good E Mail To tell Personal Antispam X4 to learn from good e mail messages that were moved to the Spam folder select one or several messages then do the following e For Mail click the Personal Antispam X4 icon then select Learn Good E mail e For Entourage click the AppleScript icon and select Personal Antispam gt Learn Good E mail In addition to adding the words contained in the messages to the lexical filter this tells Personal Antispam X4 to add the sender to the whitelist if you have checked Add Sender to Whitelist when Learning in the Whitelist settings You can find out more about the settings for the whitelist and other filters later in this chapter in Personal Antispam X4 Preferences and Settings Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 49 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 Optimizing Personal Antispam X4 Spam Filtering As mentioned in the previous section you should use the Personal Antispam X4 functions or AppleScripts to help Personal Antispam X4 learn from the e mail and spam you receive Since both the e mail and spam you receive are unique this helps ensure that Personal Antispam X4 s spam filtering is optimal To optimize Personal Antispam X4 s filtering you should teach it the following Spam that goes in your in box you should use the Learn Spam function or AppleScript for all spam that goes into your in box This adds the words and other characteris
2. e WS sph SoS Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 1 Intego Personal Antispam X4 for Macintosh 2004 2006 Intego All Rights Reserved Intego www intego com This manual was written for use with Intego Personal Antispam X4 software for Macintosh This manual and the Intego Personal Antispam X4 software described in it are copyrighted with all rights reserved This manual and the Intego Personal Antispam X4 software may not be copied except as otherwise provided in your software license or as expressly permitted in writing by Intego The Software is owned by Intego and its suppliers and its structure organization and code are the valuable trade secrets of Intego The Software is protected by United States Copyright Law and International Treaty provisions Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 2 Contents 1 About Intego Personal Antispam XA sisiveisesscosvsvevineisessonevansniverdoscansvarsdversensnsveisesiones Whats Spam siscsiscasscsasvenisiecsceasavieavassscuevasesanecisscsevisisxsankchexbuonansaveekebsssackstaibaetokssbseasvenivvaisestnensaeidints 6 Why Do You Receive Spari less Sac clock cated tad Denice acu cr cher EEEE ENEAN A DNN Spaen ENESES A SEATA Eai 7 Why Use Intego Personal Antispam X4 c0scscscsssseseserereresassssosesesesenessosssosenenesenevsssosoroserere 8 How Personal Antispam X4 WorkKS icisssssssscsssisescoroconsasnvsonsn
3. Click this button to launch NetUpdate and check for updates to Personal Antispam X4 and other Intego software you have installed 0909 Personal Antispam X4 Installed Services 3 13 06 Latest Services 3 9 06 Your subscription ends in 16 months Check Now To hide the NetUpdate Status Bar which is displayed by default select View gt Hide NetUpdate Status Bar To display it again select View gt Show NetUpdate Status Bar Filter Subscriptions and Updates When you purchase Personal Antispam X4 you have access to updates and updated URL filters for one year from the date of purchase After this time additional subscriptions allowing you to extend your access to updated URL filters are available from Intego and can be purchased through NetUpdate Activating and Deactivating Antispam Protection By default Personal Antispam X4 s antispam protection is on but you may for some reasons want to turn it off temporarily To do this click the Off button on the main screen K Don t forget to turn this protection back on when you want it to filter your spam again just click the On button to do this Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 57 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Other Personal Antispam X4 Settings Personal Antispam X4 offers other settings that allow you to control the way the program displays These settings let you refine the way Personal Antispam X4 flag
4. 3 13 06 Latest Services 3 9 06 Your subscription ends in 16 months amp Check Now Statistics Show Graph I Spams Detected 61725 Settings v Optimize Dictionary Weekly v amp Blacklist M Whitelist MG URL m Attachment Ke j accessors accomplish accomplished accordance According according account Account accounts accurate accurately achete achieve achieved achieving Remove All Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Last Seen 3 21 06 6 10 21 PM r 12 8 05 7 21 04 PM 0 8 9 04 7 39 50 PM 8 4 04 11 05 41 AM 12 1 05 12 21 10 PM 3 22 06 5 59 18 PM 3 17 06 1 58 00 PM 3 13 06 4 46 58 PM 3 21 06 4 20 21 PM 3 21 06 5 52 07 PM 3 21 06 12 00 23 PM 7 30 04 3 40 57 PM 3 15 06 1 44 55 PM 8 10 04 12 59 08 PM 8 10 04 12 59 08 PM Number of Keywords 6871 Page 63 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences If for any reason you want to turn off the lexical filter uncheck the box next to its name in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window To turn the filter on again click the box next to its name Viewing Lexical Filter Statistics To view statistics for this filter click the Show Graph button this displays a statistics graph See Viewing Antispam Statistics earlier in this manual for more on displaying statistics Statistics E Spams Detected 155412 Jj E mails Analyzed 192723 1000 800 600 E mails
5. Antispam X4 This opens Personal Antispam X4 which asks if you are sure that you want to replace the current settings and database with those you are importing You can also select File gt Import Settings A file dialog asks you to locate the settings file Click Import and these settings are immediately applied to Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 83 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences The Intego Menu Personal Antispam X4 and all other Intego X4 programs installs an Intego menu in the menubar called the Intego menu Its icon is a small tower as in the Intego logo M Click the Intego menu icon to display a menu that shows all your Intego X4 software Fril1205PM 2 About your Intego Software Q NetBarrier X4 p NetUpdate X4 Next check Friday March 24 2006 6 37 PM Personal Antispam X4 Personal Backup X4 VirusBarrier X4 The About your Intego Software menu option details all Intego software currently installed on your computer and will look something like this About your Intego Software You have installed the following Intego Software Intego Menu 10 4 5 NetBarrier X4 10 4 1 NetUpdate X4 10 4 4 Personal Antispam X4 10 4 Personal Backup X4 10 4 5 VirusBarrier X4 10 4 3 2005 2006 Intego All rights reserved Please visit our website EC Intego Personal Antispam X4 Us
6. Microsoft Entourage for use with Intego Personal Antispam X4 To help you configure Microsoft Entourage an information panel will display in front of the Entourage window Follow the instructions on this panel and when you have finished click Done You will have to perform some manual operations to configure Microsoft Entourage for use with Personal Antispam X4 To help you configure Microsoft Entourage an information panel will display in front of the Entourage window Follow the instructions on this panel and when you have finished click Done Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 32 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Click the left arrow to return to any of the previous screens to make changes or click Configure to open Microsoft Entourage and display the information panel so you can finish configuring Personal Antispam X4 Personal Antispam X4 opens Microsoft Entourage then displays the following screen sv Yoa af Personal Antispam X4 we SEM Instructions for configuring Microsoft Entourage To complete the configuration for Microsoft Entourage do the following Turn off Microsoft Entourage s built in spam filter Microsoft Entourage X 1 In the Tools menu click Junk Mail Filter 2 Uncheck the Enable Junk Mail Filter chek box 3 Click OK to confirm your change Microsoft Entourage 2004 1 In the Tools menu click Junk E mail Protection 2 Click None to turn off t
7. filter list Object amp Comparator Pattern There are three fields in this filter list Object Comparator and Pattern The Object field for this filter contains Attachment Name you cannot change this The Comparator field lets you select how Personal Antispam X4 is to match the selected header Click the Starts With cell and a popup menu displays Contains Ends With Is Matches RegEx Select the comparator you want the filter to use Finally enter a text or regular expression in the Pattern field Object amp Comparator Pattern Me report Personal Antispam X4 will mark as spam any messages that match items you have added to the attachment filter in this manner Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 80 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Removing Items from the Attachment Filter If you want to remove any items from this filter click an item to select it or select several items by clicking a first item holding down the Command key then clicking another item then click the button An alert will ask you if you really want to remove all the items you cannot undo this action If you do want to remove these items click Remove if not click Cancel Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 81 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Running the Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant When you first configured Pers
8. that you receive often Since many techniques are used to send spam and to attempt to fool programs that filter spam Personal Antispam X4 uses a wide range of tools and filters to analyze your incoming e mail These filters make Personal Antispam X4 the most powerful tool for combating spam and help keep your in box spam free Lexical Filtering Personal Antispam X4 uses a powerful lexical filtering system also known as Bayesian analysis to examine the words contained in your e mail and determine which messages are valid and which are spam The lexical filter is a statistic filter that calculates the probability that incoming e mail messages are spam This filtering depends on a database installed with Personal Antispam X4 and by how you have categorized e mail messages that you have received The lexical filter needs to learn which of your e mail messages are spam and which are valid messages You will be able to teach the filter using the Personal Antispam X4 functions or AppleScripts that the program installs this increases the efficiency of the Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 9 Chapter 1 About Intego Personal Antispam X4 lexical filter You must remember to teach it both what is spam and what is not to get the best results Blacklist and Whitelist Personal Antispam X4 uses a blacklist and a whitelist to help filter spam A blacklist is a list of addresses from which you receive spam You can add addre
9. 2 Chapter 2 Installation Personal Antispam X4 Version 10 4 Evaluation Mode Time left 29 day s 23 hour s 53 minute s If you wish to purchase a license for Personal Antispam X4 go to the Intego web site www intego com Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 23 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 24 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 s Setup Assistant When you first open Personal Antispam X4 the program s Setup Assistant launches to help you quickly and easily configure Personal Antispam X4 to work with your e mail program Personal Antispam X4 works with Apple Mail the default e mail program provided with Mac OS X and Microsoft Entourage the e mail and personal information manager included with Microsoft Office Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant Introduction Introduction Lexical Filtering Welcome to the Intego Personal Antispam Setup Assistant Other Filters Intego Personal Antispam X4 filters your e mail and weeds out spam E mail Programs placing it in a special Spam folder Conclusion This assistant will help you set up the main filters available in Intego Personal Antispam X4 and help you configure Intego Personal Antispam X4 for your e mail program Click the right arrow below to begin Int
10. 4 closes the Setup Assistant then displays a dialog informing you that the configuration has been completed successfully Configuration successful Your e mail programs are now configured to work with Intego Personal Antispam X4 Click OK and the Personal Antispam X4 Assistant exits and the main Personal Antispam X4 window displays Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 39 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Position of the Personal Antispam Rule When Personal Antispam X4 configures your e mail program it either creates a special rule with Apple Mail or instructs you to create one manually with Microsoft Entourage These rules tell the e mail programs to activate Personal Antispam X4 so the program can filter your incoming e mail and check whether your messages are spam or good e mail The position of this rule can make a difference not in the efficiency of Personal Antispam X4 s spam filter but in the statistics you see in displayed in Personal Antispam X4 If you place this rule at the end of the list which is the default position any other rules you may have set up will filter your messages before Personal Antispam X4 gets to see them These rules will filter some messages in most cases valid e mail messages and either move them into specific folders change their categories or perform other actions If the rules say that no further actions are not to be performed Personal An
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12. Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 55 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences View Options Personal Antispam X4 offers two view options which apply to all the program s screens You can activate or deactivate these options from the View menu Viewing Filter Counts You can choose to show or hide filter counts which show the total number of spams that Personal Antispam X4 has detected along with the number detected for each of the program s filters or for the whitelist filter how many valid messages were found using that filter These filter counts display next to the name of each filter FN overview D m q Lexical 111163 m g Blacklist gD M A Whitelist ED M URL gp m gt Attachment 69 To hide filter counts which are displayed by default select View gt Hide Filter Counts To display them again select View gt Show Filter Counts Viewing the NetUpdate Status Bar You can also choose to show or hide the NetUpdate Status Bar which displays at the top of the Personal Antispam X4 window This status bar shows the date of the latest installed services which includes both the Personal Antispam X4 program and its filters the most Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 56 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences recent services available the amount of time remaining in your Personal Antispam X4 subscription and a Check Now button
13. User s Manual Page 60 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Personal Antispam X4 also displays a graph of e mails analyzed and spams detected You can choose from three displays for this graph the last 24 hours the last 7 days or the last 30 days To change the display click the popup menu showing the display range and choose a new range Statistics E Spams Detected 155412 E mails Analyzed 192723 1000 800 600 E mails 4 So 2 pea Tue Wec me Sun Mon Statistics for the last 24 hours Statistics for the last 30 days za vse _ _ Personal Antispam X4 uses the same type of graph for each filter To view these statistics click one of the filter icons in the Personal Antispam X4 toolbar then click the Show Graph button Statistics Show Graph I Spams Detected 60947 You can show the statistics for each filter in this way and hide the statistics by clicking the Hide Graph button which displays when the statistics are visible Note Statistics for each of the different filters will show a different number of e mails analyzed When one of Personal Antispam X4 s filters detects a good message or a spam Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 61 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences message other filters may not examine it Personal Antispam X4 s filters examine your e mail in the follow
14. X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 19 Chapter 2 Installation If you purchased Personal Antispam X4 by download you will have a disk image file called Personal Antispam X4 dmg Double click this file to open the disk image which will mount on the desktop A window opens containing a series of folders one for each language available Double click the folder for your language and you ll see the Personal Antispam X4 installer A window will present you with two options Install and Uninstall Click the Uninstall button to remove Personal Antispam X4 ear Personal Antispam X4 Install Personal Antispam E Install Uninstall Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 20 Chapter 2 Installation Serializing Personal Antispam X4 When you restart your computer open Personal Antispam X4 it is found in your Applications folder You can also open the program from the Intego menu in the menubar See The Intego Menu later in this manual for more about this menu Personal Antispam X4 will open its serialization program and display the following window Please Enter Your Serial Number Personal Antispam User Name Company Name Serial Number Cancel You must enter your name company if any and your serial number The serial number is found on a sticker in the Personal Antispam X4 case or provided in the e mail message confirming your purchase by downloa
15. aller will quit The next window shows all the available disks or volumes on your computer Select the disk or volume where you want to install Personal Antispam X4 then click Continue Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 17 Chapter 2 Installation Click Install to install Personal Antispam X4 This performs a basic installation You will see a window informing you that you must enter an administrator s password to install Personal Antispam X4 Enter the administrator s user name and password in this dialog then click OK After installation you will have to restart your computer Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 18 Chapter 2 Installation Uninstalling Personal Antispam X4 If you ever want to uninstall Personal Antispam X4 you can do so easily Uninstallation depends on the way you purchased the software If you purchased Personal Antispam X4 on a CD ROM insert the Personal Antispam X4 CD ROM in your computer s CD ROM drive Double click the Intego Software Install icon Click the Uninstall icon on the installer then check Personal Antispam X4 ane Intego Mac OS X Software Click the checkbox to select the software you want to uninstall Uninstall Name Version NetBarrier X4 10 4 1 NetUpdate X4 10 4 4 v Personal Antispam X4 10 4 Software to uninstall 1 Select All Uninstall www intego com Click the Uninstall button to remove Personal Antispam
16. bject amp Comparator Pattern IA From lt l 5 friend friend com amp Overview m q Lexical v amp Blacklist MM URL M gt Attachment Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 71 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences If for any reason you want to turn off the whitelist filter uncheck the box next to its name in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window To turn the filter on again click the box next to its name Viewing Whitelist Filter Statistics To view statistics for this filter click the Show Graph button this displays a statistics graph See Viewing Antispam Statistics earlier in this manual for more on displaying statistics Statistics Hide Graph E Legitimate E mails Detected 14788 E mails Statistics for the last 30 days vV Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 72 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Whitelist Filter Options The whitelist filter offers two options to help Personal Antispam X4 function optimally If you check Trust senders in Address Book Personal Antispam X4 considers all the contacts in Apple s Address Book to the whitelist as valid senders and will never mark messages from any of these contacts as spam v Trust senders in AddressBook v Add sender to Whitelist when learning Note the whitelist filter does not recognize contacts stored in M
17. chments files sent together with messages such as certain types of image files Other messages may contain Windows viruses which while not exactly spam and aren t dangerous to Macs can annoy you by filling your in box Personal Antispam X4 checks for certain types of attachments that may indicate spam and also checks for pif and scr files which are only sent with messages by Windows viruses Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 11 Chapter 2 Installation 2 Installation A BREA EBA A RA DW Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 12 Chapter 2 Installation System Requirements e Any officially supported Mac OS X compatible computer running a PowerPC or Intel processor e Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server 10 2 8 or later Jaguar Panther and Tiger e Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage e mail program e 40 MB free hard disk space Installing Personal Antispam X4 Installing Personal Antispam X4 is very simple If you have purchased Personal Antispam X4 on a CD ROM insert the Personal Antispam X4 CD ROM in your computer s CD ROM drive A window opens containing a series of folders one for each language available Double click the folder for your language then double click the Intego Software Install icon rel Seon Intego Software Install The Intego software installer window displays This installer allows you to install any of Intego s programs for Mac OS X if you have serial numbers f
18. ck the Check Now button on the Personal Antispam X4 status bar or select NetUpdate X4 from the Intego menu For more on using NetUpdate see the NetUpdate User s Manual Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 86 Chapter 6 Technical Support 6 Technical Support BEAR EB B B Y Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 87 Chapter 6 Technical Support Technical support is available for registered purchasers of Personal Antispam X4 By e mail support intego com North and South America eurosupport intego com Europe Middle East Africa supportfr intego com France supportjp intego com Japan From the Intego web site www intego com Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 88 Chapter 6 Technical Support Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 89 Chapter 7 Glossary 7 Glossary BPR EB EB EB BD Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 90 Chapter 7 Glossary Bayesian analysis This is a statistic method used to determine whether incoming e mail messages are spam or not This analysis uses a database of good and bad words and weights the resulting analysis of each message according to the frequency of each type of word Blacklist This is a list of bad addresses from which all messages are considered to be spam False positive This is a valid e mail message that gets sorted as spam Mailing list A mailing list is a type of forum that operate
19. ckground so you don t have to do anything for it to separate your good e mail from the spam you receive Personal Antispam X4 adds a Spam folder to Entourage s folder list Y amp Folders on My Computer Inbox Drafts Outbox Sent Items GSE ike Deleted Items EA Junk E mail spam i Microsoft News Server gt QJ Mail Views When Personal Antispam X4 determines that one of your incoming messages is spam it marks the message as junk mail and moves it to the Spam folder Messages that Personal Antispam X4 determines are good e mail go into your in box unless you have created rules to filter then into other mailboxes or folders You should still check the Spam folder before deleting the messages it contains it is possible that one or several false positives or valid e mail messages marked as spam are in this folder Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 45 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 Helping Personal Antispam X4 Learn from Your E Mail While Personal Antispam X4 is very effective at separating spam from good e mail the e mail you get is different from everyone else s When you first start using Personal Antispam X4 you ll find that some spam will still end up in your in box and some good e mail might get filed in the Spam folder Personal Antispam X4 is an intelligent spam filtering program and it can learn from the e mail you receive When you discover spam in your in box or
20. d When serialization is completed Personal Antispam X4 will open and you can configure the program Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 21 Chapter 2 Installation Using Personal Antispam X4 in Evaluation Mode Personal Antispam X4 offers an evaluation mode to allow you to discover how the program works before purchasing it If you have not yet registered the program Personal Antispam X4 displays its evaluation mode dialog when it starts up Personal Antispam X4 is currently running in Evaluation Mode The Evaluation mode represents a 30 day period during which you can fully use Personal Antispam X4 After the expiration of this period you can purchase a license for Personal Antispam X4 at www intego com to keep on using it To use Personal Antispam X4 in evaluation mode click Evaluation Mode when this dialog displays If you have a serial number click Serialize to enter this number and turn off Evaluation Mode When Personal Antispam X4 runs in evaluation mode it functions for 30 days At the end of this period you can either purchase a license for Personal Antispam X4 or delete the program You can find out how much time is left in your evaluation period by choosing About Personal Antispam X4 from the Personal Antispam X4 menu The About screen tells you that the program is in evaluation mode and shows the time remaining in evaluation mode Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 2
21. dress on a mailing list or in a newsgroup or never giving your e mail address to a web site to register or ask for information this defeats the purpose of the Internet Many people see spam as unavoidable as a natural side effect of the openness of the Internet Unfortunately this openness ends up filling your in box with junk Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 7 Chapter 1 About Intego Personal Antispam X4 Why Use Intego Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 is the ultimate spam fighting tool for Mac OS X Personal Antispam X4 analyzes your incoming e mail determining which messages are spam and which are valid messages and does so in many ways by checking a whitelist and blacklist of addresses message headers content or layout URLs in messages and much more Unlike the spam filters provided with e mail programs such as Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage Personal Antispam X4 is intelligent When you first install Personal Antispam X4 its performance is similar to that of the filters included with e mail programs But as you use it more and more having the program learn from your spam and from your good e mail Personal Antispam X4 outperforms any spam filter available Personal Antispam X4 uses a set of plug ins to provide the most powerful spam filter available You choose which plug ins you want to use according to the type of spam you receive Personal Antispam X4 uses lexical filtering also
22. e file called Personal Antispam X4 dmg Double click this file to open the disk image which will mount on the desktop A window opens containing a series of folders one for each language available Double click the folder for your language and you ll see the Personal Antispam X4 installer the Read me file and the Personal Antispam X4 manual this file First read the Read me file Then double click the Personal Antispam X4 installer V A _ ey ora Personal Antispam X4 Install A window will present you with two options Install and Uninstall Click Install to install Personal Antispam X4 If you ever need to uninstall the program use the Uninstall button ear Personal Antispam X4 Install Personal Antispam g Q Install Uninstall Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 16 Chapter 2 Installation The Personal Antispam X4 Installer After you launch the installation with either the CD ROM installer or the download installer the following window displays Install Personal Antispam X4 Welcome to the Personal Antispam X4 Installer Personal Antispam X4 www intego com Intego 2004 2006 all rights reserved Introduction License Requirements Mac OS X 10 2 8 or later Continue Click Continue to proceed with installation The Intego software license displays Click Continue then click Agree if you accept this license if not click Disagree and the inst
23. e Blacklist Filter ccsssssssssssssessesecseseessessessssessesessnenseneesesusseenneneeneeeceeeasenseasensenses 69 Removing Items from the Blacklist Filter ccccsssssessessessesseseeseesesseseenseseeecesccucsesaeeaeeaceseesenenseneeneenes 70 Whitelist Filter Settings scisissssssvassvaisnshasasasacannscaanssssagnsannsasnsasnonsnanstbansonsocouosonvanaoannusinenntossieannnantess 71 Viewing Whitelist Filter Statistics sdasocacaavensoonassapeschosessnch vscyuspscetvbssstenssnsdets ARET Ai 72 Whitelist Filter Options rerenronenonninr iiin aara A aa Aai An iia 73 Adding Items to the Whitelist Filter csxsvvsssssvsresovessussnesvavessticaverecovevsasiacsncsivsvcnaibnsessisuesatnvesenaietivests 74 Removing Items from the Whitelist Pile rs fecascisciioinsosnnestasuieearesnehabatiansciaisenssbecnasaaiaaniuisiecnassawiniuiss 75 URL Filter Settings cisscsissicsnssssncssssssssvssoseaossipurisasigiiacnsiabeduacdssanvashsssissepaiaseasastasoashgisveashoipisbensanisnshees 76 Viewing URL Filter Statistics c tisc casas cecsctsast ads ctseteestatssttacatasvatactacstsrsscpiaesassstarsesaretentsssananeasdtban ens ar a 77 Attachment Filter SOU gs cciscisesssscsssassncassidsacsondsecosnvesonsuesadauvaatacssesovecosasstadsusnsnasevecstosovasssesnunastias 78 Viewing Attachment Filter Statistics sssessesssssssssseesessecsessessesseseeassuesesseeaeeaseseseeseeneeaseaseneeueceeaeeaseaees 79 Adding Items to the Attachment Filter cceesssssssesessessessessssseseeseseessesse
24. eeceeereeeseseeeseensseeeneseeeeees 57 Other Personal Antispam X4 Settings csssssessressssososesererevsvsesososesenererarassssssssenenesssssnononees 58 E mail Setungs aisssiiiisssiritinsasrspsairsainsnieinsasirsasraraiiaa sananta art En TERE aS EAT ET EE ER E ER E a 58 Personal Antispam X4 Monitoring Wind ow cccccccsscssessesessenesseessesessesesseseeesnsseseesessesesneseeneeeenes 59 Viewing Antispam Statisties ssiscasiscsssasasssevasanecisvtennsinssssvsensisneadnssssshosviscesoassoevaons ssusinisseniaANisiviay 60 Activating and Deactivating FiltetS issssssesssissscncvcscsavnvssnsnosssssinssesansnosysotsunivsnsvansvsatinansabsnenviotiansy 62 Lexical Filt r Settings scssisssisisassnasavasericeseseaasnsvbaaceasvannnoassesnkanskonpianseoapdossospdosvsnandoniavaniuanansvaensanswabns 63 Viewing Lexical Filter StatistiCSussssinuisiisnsisisi aniisi reai kek aR RAEE RE 64 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 3 Managing the Lexical Filte narennonsssniniranan irotan ae E aneR aaa 64 Blacklist Filter Settings assis ceisccsussciccsuscovasnsasencanativadessacdecssvasosvansscsavasesadssondsancsinsdansasedsqusddsasevasssvae 67 Viewing Blacklist Filter Statistics 1c tscecgantacnssensssenssbascscnssdvssscsandasdscyodcacesesedanssacacdoasnddsasess sonetisepaustes 68 Blacklist Filter Options scsestssesisescscxcsascatecsvecsce cesesavesssevssnsisnstanstiestsasdsnevonstonsavessverssseaseaensteseanberbsustensteasavenors 68 Adding Items to th
25. ego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 25 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 The Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant walks you through a series of steps to explain how the program works and to configure it to work with your e mail program e Lexical Filtering e Other Filters e E mail Programs e Conclusion Click the right arrow to begin configuring Personal Antispam X4 You can click the left arrow at any time to return to previous screens Note that Personal Antispam X4 will not filter spam unless you configure it to work with your e mail program either Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage It will also not filter spam with any other e mail programs Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 26 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Lexical Filtering This screen explains what lexical filtering is and tells you how Personal Antispam X4 uses this technique to filter your e mail Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant Lexical Filtering Introduction Lexical Filtering The Lexical filter is a Bayesian statistic filter which Other Fil E gt determines whether incoming e mail messages are spam or ther Filters Ka not This filtering depends on how you have categorized E mail Programs previous e mail messages Conclusion The Lexical filter needs to learn which of your e mail messages are spam and which are valid messages You will be able to teach the filter u
26. er s Manual Page 84 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences You can open Personal Antispam X4 or any other Intego X4 program from this menu and you can also open NetUpdate to check for updates to your software In addition if you select Personal Antispam X4 from the Intego menu a submenu displays giving you access to certain functions Turn Antispam Off Filters Personal Backup X4 v Lexical v Blacklist 5 VirusBarrier X4 y Whitelist v URL y Attachment Open Personal Antispam X4 If you select Turn Antispam Off you can deactivate Personal Antispam X4 s spam filtering You can also select any of the program s filters in this menu to deactivate them if you do this the check marks next to their names will be removed Selecting an unchecked filter reactivates it Finally you can open Personal Antispam X4 by selecting Open Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 85 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences NetUpdate NetUpdate is an application that Intego s programs can use to check if the program has been updated This application is installed at the same time as Personal Antispam X4 or other Intego programs It checks updates for all of these programs at the same time and downloads and installs those for the programs installed on your computer To check for updates to Personal Antispam X4 or other Intego programs cli
27. ettings you can quit the program Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 43 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 Using Personal Antispam X4 with Apple Mail After you have installed Personal Antispam X4 and configured it to work with Apple Mail Personal Antispam X4 will begin filtering your incoming e mail the next time Mail receives messages Personal Antispam X4 works in the background so you don t have to do anything for it to separate your good e mail from the spam you receive Personal Antispam X4 adds a Spam folder to Mail s mailbox list When Personal Antispam X4 determines that one of your incoming messages is spam it moves the message to the Spam folder Messages that Personal Antispam X4 determines are good e mail go into your in box unless you have created rules to filter then into other mailboxes or folders You should still check the Spam folder before deleting the messages it contains it is possible that one or several false positives or valid e mail messages marked as spam are in this folder Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 44 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 Using Personal Antispam X4 with Microsoft Entourage After you have installed Personal Antispam X4 and configured it to work with Microsoft Entourage Personal Antispam X4 will begin filtering your incoming e mail the next time Entourage receives messages Personal Antispam X4 works in the ba
28. ey do reading legitimate e mail it is not uncommon to receive hundreds of spam messages each day for only a few dozen legitimate e mail messages Spam is the electronic equivalent of the junk mail you receive in your mailbox But while much of the junk mail you receive is local flyers for the neighborhood supermarket sales at your local sporting goods store spam generally offers scams and swindles Some of these include the Nigerian Scam or the 419 scam named after the relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria where e mails ask you to help someone obtain several million dollars from a bank account after you have put up a few thousand yourself as an advance fee Other spam messages offer prescription drugs without a prescription at rock bottom prices software at prices that are too good to be true messages claiming to be from friends directing you to check out a specific web site phishing messages or attempts to get you to log on to a bank web site and enter your user name and password or e mail offering you free pornography or miracle solutions to increase the size of certain body parts While it is relatively simple to get rid of the junk mail you receive in your mailbox at home spam is more difficult to detect The subject headers of spam messages often lead you to think that the messages are from old friends or businesses you have worked with If you have to sort through all this spam in your in box every day e
29. good e mail in the Spam folder you can use Personal Antispam X4 s special training scripts to help the program work more efficiently Personal Antispam X4 performs optimally after a few weeks of this training Personal Antispam X4 uses two methods to do this depending on whether you are using Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage For Apple Mail Personal Antispam X4 installs a special menu in the program s menubar Window Help This menu gives you access to Personal Antispam X4 s training functions as well as quick access to the program itself With Microsoft Entourage Personal Antispam X4 uses AppleScripts to learn spam and valid e mail AppleScript is a technology that is part of Mac OS X and that can extend the functionality of certain programs Microsoft Entourage has a special script menu that contains AppleScripts to the right of the Help menu Window Help Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 46 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 In the example above the AppleScript menu is the scroll icon Click this icon and you ll see a menu of all the AppleScripts available for Entourage Learning Spam To tell Personal Antispam X4 to learn from spam that is in your in box select one or several spam messages then click the Personal Antispam X4 icon Mail and select Learn Spam If you are using Entourage click the AppleScript icon and select Personal Antispam gt Learn Spam This tells Pers
30. h messages from people you know along with brief text messages For additional protection from viruses think of purchasing Intego VirusBarrier X4 the most thorough antivirus program available for Mac e Turn off HTML display spammers use web bugs or tiny graphics in their messages to check whether recipients view these messages When you use HTML display in your e mail program the program must connect to the web site containing the graphic to display the message thus telling the spammer that you have seen the message and that your address is valid Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 52 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 e Beware of phishing a dangerous type of spam circulates claiming to be from a bank or common web sites such as eBay PayPal Amazon com or others These messages look legitimate and instruct you to confirm your account by clicking a link to go to a web page When you get to the web page you are asked to enter your user name or account number password and sometimes a credit card number All such e mails are scams Don t ever believe a message like this No on line vendor will ever ask you to enter information in this manner In addition while the URL you see in the message looks legitimate the web page you go to is not these web sites usually have names that are slightly different from the actual vendor s name If any web site vendor or bank sends you a message contact them direct
31. he filter 3 Click OK to confirm your change 1 2 Continue This screen remains in front of your Entourage window so you can see what steps you need to carry out Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 33 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 First you must turn off Entourage s built in spam filter Do the following For Entourage v X 1 Inthe Tools menu select Junk Mail Filter 2 Uncheck the Enable Junk Mail Filter checkbox 3 Click OK to confirm your change Junk Mail Filter Enable Junk Mail Filter sitivity Drag left to classify fewer messages as junk or drag right to classify more messages as junk To ensure that messages from someone are not classified as junk add the sender to your Address Book Q Average t apply ti essages from these domain Type the domain the part of an e mail address that follows For example type CompanyName com to prevent applying the Junk Mail Filter to messages from that company Type a comma between domains Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 34 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 For Entourage 2004 1 In the Tools menu select Junk E mail Protection 2 Click None to turn off the filter 3 Click OK to confirm your change Junk E mail Protection Level Safe Domains Entourage can move messages that appear to be junk e mail to a special Junk E mail folder What le
32. headers this sorts the database by that header Clicking again changes the sort order You can also add your own entries to this filter To do this click the button Personal Antispam X4 adds a new line to the filter list Object amp Comparator Pattern There are three fields in this filter list Object Comparator and Pattern In the Object field you can select from a number of e mail message headers Click the From cell and a popup menu displays Any Recipient Bcc Cc Content Transfer Encoding Content Type Date List Owner List Post List URL Message ID Mime Version Received Reply To Subject To X Mailer X Sender X UIDL Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 69 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Select the header you want the filter to search for The Comparator field lets you select how Personal Antispam X4 is to match the selected header Click the Starts With cell and a popup menu displays Contains Ends With Is Matches RegEx Select the comparator you want the filter to use Finally enter a text or regular expression in the Pattern field Object Comparator Pattern mortgage Personal Antispam X4 will mark as spam any messages that match items you have added to the blacklist filter in this manner Removing Items from the Blacklist Filter If you want to remove any items from this filter click an item to select it
33. her Filters program s for use with Intego Personal Antispam X4 Click E mail Programs Configure to proceed Conclusion Cancel Click the left arrow to return to any of the previous screens to make changes or click Configure to configure Apple Mail for use with Personal Antispam X4 and exit the assistant Personal Antispam X4 configures Apple Mail so it can filter incoming e mail then displays a dialog informing you that the configuration has been completed successfully Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 30 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Configuration successful Your e mail programs are now configured to work ve seam with Intego Personal Antispam X4 Click OK and the Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant exits and the main Personal Antispam X4 window displays Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 31 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Conclusion Microsoft Entourage If you use Microsoft Entourage the following screen displays Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant Conclusion Introduction Wa Lexical Filtering The assistant is now ready to configure the selected e mail Other Filters program s for use with Intego Personal Antispam X4 Click E mail Programs Configure to proceed Conclusion Additional information for Microsoft Entourage You will have to perform some manual operations to configure
34. icrosoft Entourage If you check Add sender to Whitelist when learning Personal Antispam X4 adds the senders of good e mail messages to the whitelist when you use the Learn Good E mail function or AppleScript This ensures that messages from these senders will never be marked as spam Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 73 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Adding Items to the Whitelist Filter The whitelist filter is empty when you first start using Personal Antispam X4 and addresses are added as you tell Personal Antispam X4 to learn from your good e mail if you have the Add sender to Whitelist when learning option checked You can sort the contents of the Whitelist filter list by clicking one of the column headers this sorts the database by that header Clicking again changes the sort order You can also add your own entries to this filter To do this click the button Personal Antispam X4 adds a new line to the filter list Object amp Comparator Pattern There are three fields in this filter list Object Comparator and Pattern In the Object field you can select from a number of e mail message headers Click the From cell and a popup menu displays Any Recipient Bcc Cc Content Transfer Encoding Content Type Date List Owner List Post List URL Message ID Mime Version Received Reply To Subject To X Mailer X Sender X UIDL Intego Personal Antis
35. in a message to fool recipients of their messages E mail with this type of URL is generally spam and Personal Antispam X4 searches for this and other techniques when analyzing your incoming e mail In addition Personal Antispam X4 uses a special database of URLs that are known to be used in spam messages Intego monitors spam that is sent over the Internet and records URLs that are used in spam messages and the monthly updates to this database help keep your in box spam free To view settings for the URL filter click the URL icon in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window 00A Personal Antispam X4 URL Installed Services 3 13 06 Latest Services 3 9 06 Your subscription ends in 16 months Check Now Statistics Show Graph Bl Spams Detected 9486 Settings v Consider all biz domains as Spam wi Consider all info domains as Spam amp Overview Wy Lexical A gt y Blacklist m lt Whitelist M Attachment Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 76 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences If for any reason you want to turn off the URL filter uncheck the box next to its name in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window To turn the filter on again click the box next to its name This filter offers two options which look for specific domains in URLs biz and info and consider them as spam By default these op
36. ing order e Attachment filter e URL filter e Whitelist e Blacklist e Lexical filter It is therefore normal that you see different numbers of e mails analyzed for each of these filters and for the overall number of messages Activating and Deactivating Filters Personal Antispam X4 uses a set of filters as you have seen above While it is advisable to leave all of these filters active you can deactivate any of them if you wish To do so simply uncheck the box next to one of the filters a Ke Lexical v gt Blacklist M Whitelist 14685 m URL M Attachment You can reactivate the filter by checking the box next to its name Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 62 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Lexical Filter Settings Personal Antispam X4 uses a powerful lexical filtering system also known as Bayesian Analysis to examine the words contained in your e mail and determine which messages are valid and which are spam The lexical filter is a statistic filter that determines whether incoming e mail messages are spam or not This filtering depends on a database installed with Personal Antispam X4 and by how you have categorized e mail messages that you have received To view settings for the lexical filter click the Lexical icon in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window 009 Personal Antispam X4 Lexical Installed Services
37. ion in the same way as above Click Add Action to create a new action 6 7 8 Click the Play Sound popup menu and select Run AppleScript 9 Click the Script button A standard Select dialog displays Go to your Documents folder and select the script named Personal Antispam scpt Click Select 10 Click OK to confirm the rule 2 2 GoBack Done Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 36 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 You must now create a rule with Entourage so Personal Antispam X4 can be activated and its filters can check your incoming e mail Do the following 1 Inthe Tools menu select Rules 2 Click the tab related to the type of e mail account you have In most cases this is Mail POP which is a standard e mail account If you have an IMAP Hotmail or Exchange account click the appropriate tab If you have any doubts ask your administrator or your ISP 3 Click New to create a new rule 808 Rules wheel Edit Delete Movet n Mail POP Mail IMAP Mail Hotmail li Mail Exchange i News Outgoing 4 Name the new rule Personal Antispam Edit Rule Rule name Personal Antispam Execute if all criteria are met is All messages B Then p Add Action Change status E Not junk E mail Set category W None a v Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria M Enabled Cancel Intego Personal Ant
38. ispam X4 User s Manual Page 37 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 5 Click to the right of the first action in the Then section to select it then click Remove Action to delete it Then p Add Action 9 Remove Action Change status i Not junk E mail 8 Set category B None 6 Remove the second action in the same way as above 7 Click Add Action to create a new action Then P Add Action v Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria 8 Click the first popup menu and select Run AppleScript Then p Add Action 3 Remove Action Play sound _ New Mail sound EZ v Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria 9 Click the Script button A standard Select dialog displays Go to your Documents folder and select the script named Personal Antispam scpt Click Select The finished rule should look like this Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 38 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Edit Rule Rule name Personal Antispam Execute if all criteria are met All messages B Then P Add Action Run AppleScript B d Script Personal Antispam Script scpt Do not apply other rules to messages that meet these criteria M Enabled Cancel OK 10 Click OK to confirm the rule When you have completed the above steps click Done on the Personal Antispam X4 information panel Personal Antispam X
39. k the right arrow to go to the next screen Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 28 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 E Mail Programs This screen asks you to choose which e mail program s you use you can choose Apple Mail the default e mail program provided with Mac OS X Microsoft Entourage the e mail program and personal information manager included with Microsoft Office or both if you use both programs Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant E mail Programs Introduction Lexical Filtering Select the e mail programs you want to use with Intego Other Filters Personal Antispam X4 E mail Programs Conclusion _ Apple Mail Mail is the default e mail program provided with Mac OS X Microsoft Entourage Entourage is the e mail program and personal information manager included with Microsoft Office Click the right arrow below to continue Cancel Check the e mail program s you use Click the right arrow to go to the next screen Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 29 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Conclusion Apple Mail This final screen configures Personal Antispam X4 according to your choices If you use Apple Mail the Conclusion screen looks like this Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant Conclusion Introduction Lexical Filtering The assistant is now ready to configure the selected e mail Ot
40. known as Bayesian analysis attachment filters whitelist and blacklist filters and also filters URLs using a database of known spam URLs that are often included in messages Personal Antispam X4 also looks for specific types of headers and layout used in HTML messages which are most often used for spam allowing the program to not only search for content but also for the subtle ways that spammers craft their messages After you have had Personal Antispam X4 learn from your e mail you can export your settings and spam database and give it to friends family or colleagues so these people can get optimal spam filtering immediately without having to wait for Personal Antispam X4 to learn from their e mail They can then have the program learn from the more specific types of spam and good e mail they receive to refine the program s efficiency Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 8 Chapter 1 About Intego Personal Antispam X4 Spam techniques are constantly changing and Personal Antispam X4 offers monthly updates to fight new types of spam as they appear and to update its database of spam URLs How Personal Antispam X4 Works Personal Antispam X4 helps weed out spam using a number of different techniques and filters making it the most efficient antispam tool available for Mac OS X In addition some of the filters allow you to go even further and add your own rules and conditions to eliminate specific types of spam
41. lders if you use rules to sort your messages Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 51 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 Tips for Dealing with Spam While Personal Antispam X4 filters your e mail and weeds out spam moving it to a Spam folder it cannot stop the arrival of these messages to your e mail account There are a few things you should keep in mind when dealing with spam while these tips won t stop spam they may keep you from receiving more spam e Don t ever reply to spam if you reply to a spam message even requesting that the sender stop sending you messages it is not likely to do any good At best your message will bounce since spammers often forge the From address in their messages At worst it will tell the spammer that yours is a valid address and could lead to your receiving even more spam as your address gets sold or traded to other spammers e Don t ever click a link in a spam message as above clicking a link confirms that your address is valid Don t even click links that say they will unsubscribe you from a mailing list unless you are sure that the message in question is indeed from a mailing list and not a mass mailed spam message e Don t open attachments attachments can contain viruses Don t open attachments unless you are sure they are from someone you know and trust Even then don t open an attachment unless you were expecting to receive it many viruses send attachments wit
42. lter uncheck the box next to its name in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window To turn the filter on again click the box next to its name Viewing Blacklist Filter Statistics To view statistics for this filter click the Show Graph button this displays a statistics graph See Viewing Antispam Statistics earlier in this manual for more on displaying Statistics Statistics Hide Graph i Spams Detected 4180 E mails 15 00 18 00 21 00 0 00 3 00 6 00 9 00 12 00 Statistics for the last 24 hours Y Blacklist Filter Options The blacklist filter offers one option to help Personal Antispam X4 fight spam more efficiently If you check Add Sender to Blacklist when Learning Personal Antispam X4 adds the From address in every e mail message you tell the program to learn as spam to the blacklist This marks all future messages from these senders as spam automatically v Add sender to Blacklist when learning Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 68 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Adding Items to the Blacklist Filter The blacklist filter is empty when you first start using Personal Antispam X4 and addresses are added as you tell Personal Antispam X4 to learn from your spam if you have the Add sender to Blacklist when learning option checked as explained above You can sort the contents of the Blacklist filter list by clicking one of the column
43. ly from their web site to confirm such a message Don t use the links in these e mails Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 53 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences o Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 54 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Overview When you open Personal Antispam X4 the program displays its overview screen This window displays statistics about your e mail and spam lets you change some general settings lets you turn antispam protection on or off and lets you activate or deactivate specific spam filters e608 Personal Antispam X4 Installed Services 3 13 06 Latest Services 3 9 06 Your subscription ends in 16 months amp Check Now Statistics I Spams Detected 157626 E mails Analyzed 195289 1000 800 600 400 200 SS MT res EMTUHUTEF S EMT Statistics for the last 30 days m q Lexical v amp Blacklist MM Whitelist Settings v Consider e mails with Asian or Cyrillic encodings as Spam m URL Vv Consider e mails with Japanese encodings as Spam v Consider ADV e mails as Spam Attachment Visual Feedback l Show in Translucent Window now Spam Detection If any other screen is visible you can return to the Overview screen by clicking Overview in the left hand column of the Personal Antispam X4 window Intego
44. ly want to remove all the words you cannot undo this action If you do want to remove these words click Remove if not click Cancel Keywords Cood Bad Last Seen acceptable 24 17 3 19 06 8 30 35 PM acceptance 9 83 3 20 06 9 22 21 AM 0 accepted 18 102 3 19 06 11 03 54 AM accepting 24 64 3 20 06 9 22 01 AM Acces 0 1 3 17 06 4 33 58 PM accesd 0 1 3 13 06 4 52 10 PM AccesD 0 1 3 13 06 4 52 10 PM Access 27 71 3 20 06 10 05 30 AM access TE access 0 1 3 16 06 8 39 42 AM accessible 32 52 3 17 06 10 19 29 AM accessing 0 1 3 18 06 9 28 38 AM accessories 249 35 3 16 06 8 27 38 AM accident 4 29 3 19 06 6 04 42 PM A Acclaimed 0 2 3 17 06 12 25 57 PM X Remove All Number of Keywords 10945 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 65 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences If you want to clear the entire database click Remove All An alert will ask you if you really want to remove all the words you cannot undo this action If you do want to empty the database click Remove if not click Cancel You can tell Personal Antispam X4 to optimize the lexical filter database weekly If you do this Personal Antispam X4 examines the lexical filter database once a week and removes words that have not been seen frequently or recently This improves the speed of the lexical filter and improves overall performance To set this option check Optimize Dictionary Weekly v Optimize Dictionar
45. neeaesucseseeaseaneaseueseesseaneaeeaees 80 Removing Items from the Attachment Filter 0 cssssessessssssseeseseseeseessessessesseeeceeesesseateaeeseeneeeseensenes 81 Running the Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant cssssesssessssssseseseeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeees 82 Exporting Ste mes esscssinssacssosssasevanssavasehsoesevwaasuscsedssusccurassasnasnenskassucnseasbusandasvassvaisn konniciavaeaveusvunnsabes 83 Importing Settings useen nerean aeea aea EEA ESEO MRR NMIIONED 83 The Intego MSG isin ssisisisteavisnnivssisintsansssncsisiesntsvntsnnioiohonnssssnaivcehsanetenetasndoanhosniiadtsvssasbusniynubasnssisioes 84 Neth plate yicissc iccanssonessvssnncensssvacenssnessvssninsnniainesnesondnsnnsinsnsniesans ener SINISE NENA NN ARTIC 86 6 Technical Support scssscsistansustsnsconsaucemnassnentouaassncoanasasiecssaansuediiantoondesbinuaaieasiaeivanasbaten 87 7 GQLOSSATY E 90 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 4 Chapter 1 About Intego Personal Antispam X4 1 About Intego Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 5 Chapter 1 About Intego Personal Antispam X4 What is Spam Spam is the scourge of the Internet Almost every Internet user receives spam undesired e mail messages selling products and services messages suggesting that users visit certain web sites often pornographic and scams of all kinds Some people get so much spam that they spend more time sorting their in boxes than th
46. onal Antispam X4 the program s Setup Assistant helped you configure your e mail program either Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage If you need to configure a different e mail program you can run the setup assistant again at any time To do this just select Assistant from the Personal Antispam X4 menu See Chapter 3 of this manual Configuring Personal Antispam X4 for more on using this assistant and configuring your e mail program Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 82 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Exporting Settings You can save all your Personal Antispam X4 settings and its spam database in a special file that you can then import into another copy of Personal Antispam X4 This is especially useful if you manage many computers and want to use the same settings and database for all of them or if you want to share your database with friends family or colleagues To export your settings select File gt Export Settings A dialog box asks you to name the settings file and choose a location to save it Make sure not to change the antispam file extension on the settings file after you have saved it Importing Settings If you have exported settings from one copy of Personal Antispam X4 see above you can import them into another copy of the program To import settings you can simply double click the antispam settings file that you exported from another copy of Personal
47. onal Antispam X4 to analyze the messages and add the words they contain and other characteristics to its lexical filter In addition to adding the words contained in the messages to the lexical filter this tells Personal Antispam X4 to add the sender to the blacklist if you have checked Add Sender to Blacklist when Learning in the Blacklist settings This is what you ll see with Mail iow ee Help Learn Good E mail Learn Spam Empty SPAM Mailbox G Open Personal Antispam X4 You can either select one of the menu items the Personal Antispam menu or you can use keyboard shortcuts to run the functions without using the menu To run the Learn Good E mail function press Control Shift G To run the Learn Spam function press Control Shift S Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 47 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 If you use Entourage you ll see this Personal Antispam Learn Good E mail 0G Learn Spam SBS You can either select one of the scripts from the Personal Antispam sub menu or you can use keyboard shortcuts to run the scripts without using the menu To run the Learn Good E mail script press Control Shift G To run the Learn Spam script press Control Shift S Your script menu might look different especially if you have added your own AppleScripts to this menu Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 48 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4
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49. or select several items by clicking a first item holding down the Command key then clicking another item then click the button An alert will ask you if you really want to remove all the items you cannot undo this action If you do want to remove these items click Remove if not click Cancel Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 70 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Whitelist Filter Settings A whitelist is the opposite of a blacklist it is a list of addresses whose messages are always accepted as valid Personal Antispam X4 offers several options to ensure that you don t get false positives you can choose to always allow senders in Address Book Apple s contact manager program and the software that stores your addresses if you use Apple Mail You can also have Personal Antispam X4 add senders addresses to the whitelist when you tell it to learn from good e mail ensuring that e mail from your friends co workers and contacts goes straight into your in box To view settings for the whitelist filter click the Whitelist icon in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window e080 Personal Antispam X4 Whitelist Installed Services 3 13 06 Latest Services 3 9 06 Your subscription ends in 16 months Check Now Statistics Show Graph Legitimate E mails Detected 14685 Settings v Trust senders in AddressBook v Add sender to Whitelist when learning O
50. or the software If not you can install demo versions of any of these programs Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 13 Chapter 2 Installation To install Personal Antispam X4 click the popup menu below Personal Antispam X4 and select Install Intego Mac OS X Software Q Uninstall Select the software you want to install Ls rd R PA eee z e NetBarrier X4 VirusBarrier X4 ContentBarrier X barrier N Tee a ie a Personal Backup X4 ChatBarrier X3 Personal Antispam X4 B B Install i Launch Installation www intego com Click Launch Installation to begin installing Personal Antispam X4 The Intego software license displays Click Continue then click Agree if you accept this license if not click Disagree and the installer will quit Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 14 Chapter 2 Installation The installer then asks if you want it to check Intego s web site to find out if more recent versions of the program are available Click Check if you want to do this or click Install Directly if you want to install the version on the CD ROM Skip ahead to The Personal Antispam X4 Installer section of this chapter for the rest of the installation procedure Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 15 Chapter 2 Installation If you have purchased Personal Antispam X4 by download you will have a disk imag
51. pam X4 User s Manual Page 74 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Select the header you want the filter to search for The Comparator field lets you select how Personal Antispam X4 is to match the selected header Click the Starts With cell and a popup menu displays Contains Ends With Is Matches RegEx Select the comparator you want the filter to use Finally enter a text or regular expression in the Pattern field Object Comparator Pattern ee ETE aiy pictures Personal Antispam X4 will mark as good e mail any messages that match items you have added to the whitelist filter in this manner Removing Items from the Whitelist Filter If you want to remove any items from this filter click an item to select it or select several items by clicking a first item holding down the Command key then clicking another item then click the button An alert will ask you if you really want to remove all the items you cannot undo this action If you do want to remove these items click Remove if not click Cancel Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 75 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences URL Filter Settings Personal Antispam X4 has a URL filter that checks for certain URLs and the way URLs appear in e mail messages to detect spam Spammers often use techniques such as displaying one URL but hiding a link to a different URL
52. ram to learn from your e mail You can also have this window tell you when Personal Antispam X4 has detected spam in your incoming e mail even if your e mail program is in the background By default this monitoring window is deactivated If you wish to turn it on check Show in Translucent Window You can always turn it off again by unchecking this option Visual Feedback v Show in Translucent Window v Show Spam Detection If you check Show Spam Detection the translucent window also displays each time Personal Antispam X4 detects incoming spam Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 59 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Viewing Antispam Statistics As you can see on the Overview tab Personal Antispam X4 shows you a cumulative total of the number of e mail messages the program has analyzed since you installed the program and the number of spams detected Statistics I Spams Detected 155412 Jj E mails Analyzed 192723 1000 800 600 E mails 400 nN Q i it Tue Wed hu Fr Sat Sun Mon Statistics for the last 7 days v Note the number of e mail messages shown as analyzed in the different statistic graphs depend in part on the position of the Personal Antispam rule in your e mail program s list of rules See Chapter 3 Position of the Personal Antispam Rule for more on choosing the appropriate position for this rule Intego Personal Antispam X4
53. s in 16 months amp Check Now Statistics Show Graph I Spams Detected 1 Settings Object Comparator Pattern W Attachment name Ends With bat W Attachment name Ends With gt cpl Attachment name Ends With pif MM Attachment name Ends With scr amp Overview GED Me Lexical GB m amp Blacklist CD M Whitelist ED m URL Grp Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 78 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences If for any reason you want to turn off the attachment filter uncheck the box next to its name in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window To turn the filter on again click the box next to its name Viewing Attachment Filter Statistics To view statistics for this filter click the Show Graph button this displays a statistics graph See Viewing Antispam Statistics earlier in this manual for more on displaying statistics Statistics Hide Graph E Spams Detected 111432 E mails TWTE SAQAMTwres SMIEWTES SMTWTE SSS Statistics forthe last 30 days vV Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 79 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Adding Items to the Attachment Filter The attachment filter automatically checks for certain types of attachments but you can also add your own items to the list To do this click the button Personal Antispam X4 adds a new line to the
54. s messages as spam or provide visual feedback when Personal Antispam X4 detects spam or valid e mail messages E mail Settings Personal Antispam X4 has several options that allow you to flag specific types of messages as spam You can have Personal Antispam X4 automatically consider messages with certain types of text encodings as spam if you don t work with Japanese other Asian languages or languages that use Cyrillic characters By default these options are activated If however you do work with such languages uncheck the appropriate options Settings TA Consider e mails with Asian or Cyrillic encodings as Spam v Consider e mails with Japanese encodings as Spam v Consider ADV e mails as Spam The first option Consider e mails with Asian or Cyrillic encodings as Spam excludes Japanese the second option flags only messages with Japanese encodings Another option Consider ADV e mails as Spam automatically flags any e mail with ADV or similar abbreviations in the subject line as spam You can uncheck this option if you get valid e mails with this abbreviation in the subject line Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 58 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Personal Antispam X4 Monitoring Window Personal Antispam X4 offers a translucent monitoring window that displays above all your other programs when you activate Personal Antispam X4 s menu or AppleScripts to tell the prog
55. s via e mail After you subscribe to a mailing list you receive all the messages sent to the list by all the subscribers Other mailing lists are one way lists or announcement lists where you receive newsletters or other types of information but cannot send your own messages to the list Sometimes people subscribe your address to a mailing list without your permission and you may receive a flood of messages until you unsubscribe Rule E mail programs use rules to sort messages Personal Antispam X4 uses rules to activate its filtering engine but you may also have rules set for your e mail program to sort mail from friends colleagues customers or mailing lists into special folders Spam Unwanted e mail messages usually sent to thousands even millions of people at a time with a goal of selling products or services Also called unsolicited commercial e mail or junk mail URL Uniform Resource Locator or link The most common URLs are links to web sites Whitelist This is a list of good addresses usually those of your contacts from which all messages are considered to not be spam Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 91 Chapter 7 Glossary Acknowledgement Portions of this Intego Software may utilize the following copyrighted material the use of which is hereby acknowledged Omni Development OAGradientTableView Copyright 2003 2004 Omni Development Inc All rights reserved Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s
56. sing the Personal Antispam sub menu located in your e mail program s Scripts menu This filter becomes more efficient as it learns from your e mail You must remember to teach it both what is spam AND what is not to get the best results Click the right arrow below to continue Cancel As the text in the above screen explains Personal Antispam X4 s filters become more efficient by learning from the actual e mail that your receive You must teach it to recognize both spam and good e mail for it to be most effective See Using Personal Antispam X4 to find out how to teach Personal Antispam X4 to recognize your e mail Click the right arrow to go to the next screen Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 27 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Other Filters This tells you about the other types of filters that Personal Antispam X4 uses to eliminate spam Personal Antispam X4 Setup Assistant Other Filters Introduction Lexical Filtering Attachment Other Filters This filter checks e mail messages for attachments with specific E mail Programs names or with extensions such as pif or scr Conclusion Black and White Lists These filters contain lists of trusted and untrusted senders e URL This filter uses an internal dictionary of URLs to detect spam based on links contained in e mail messages Click the right arrow below to continue Cancel Clic
57. specially if you need to read e mail for your job you ll waste a lot of time and be less productive Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 6 Chapter 1 About Intego Personal Antispam X4 Why Do You Receive Spam While some spam seems to be personally addressed to you it is sent to your address and uses your name the majority of spam is sent automatically by computer programs that ingest long lists of e mail addresses and spit out millions of spam messages The goal of spam is to benefit from large mailings knowing that hardly anyone will respond to the messages offers A tiny percentage of replies to a small mailing of say several thousand addresses can be counted on the fingers of two hands but when you send out tens of millions of messages even a 001 response rate results in some impressive figures Spammers harvest addresses in many ways they use programs that search the web automatically looking for e mail addresses on web sites and forums but also get them from newsgroups and mailing lists If that isn t enough they simply buy CD ROMs that contain millions of addresses including perhaps yours Or they buy lists of e mail addresses that have been submitted to web sites when users register or request information In fact if your e mail address ends up anywhere on the Internet there is a strong possibility that a spammer will eventually find it While you can avoid spam by not ever using your e mail ad
58. sses to the blacklist to block any spam that is not detected by Personal Antispam X4 s filters but that comes often from the same address You can have Personal Antispam X4 automatically add senders addresses to the blacklist each time you mark a message as spam keeping any more e mail from that address away from your in box A whitelist is the opposite of a blacklist it is a list of addresses whose messages are always accepted as valid Personal Antispam X4 offers several options to ensure that you don t get false positives you can choose to always allow senders in Address Book Apple s software that stores your addresses if you use Apple Mail You can also have Personal Antispam X4 add senders addresses to the whitelist when you tell it to learn from good e mail ensuring that e mail from your friends co workers and contacts goes straight into your in box URL Filter Personal Antispam X4 has a URL filter that checks for certain URLs and the way URLs appear in e mail messages to detect spam Spammers often use techniques such as displaying one URL but hiding a link to a different URL in a message to fool recipients of their messages E mail with this type of URL is generally spam and Personal Antispam X4 searches for this and other techniques when analyzing your incoming e mail Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 10 Chapter 1 About Intego Personal Antispam X4 Attachments Some spam can be detected by atta
59. ssisevivssvesnevbossvsssaid ane chussvnsassurenshiaiavsveines 40 Configuring Personal Antispam X4 for Multiple UserS ses sesssssssissssisssrirssriessrirssrerssrsnssrenssssessee 41 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 csscsssssrosrorrcsssssscvecsecvacsassscorecsecsassaseorones 42 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 siccscscscsssssssssesscosscenvassononsnasecsavasionsavsssosoavassoneavavsusesssssessovioed 43 Using Personal Antispam X4 with Apple Mail sscsssinssasasanasosnsansssannapanesssanasnssanoadetidsqssstsavasivesasesaenibvaress 44 Using Personal Antispam X4 with Microsoft Entourage seessssseirissesssssserrrirresssssrrrireeessssrrrnn 45 Helping Personal Antispam X4 Learn from Your E Mail ss sssssssssssssssssssissssisssrinssrsessrenssrnnssneessee 46 Tips for Dealing with Spain suites Uracactiatiauutistatiad cas paieas ath cpaierinsasseseassaasnsiuaiadies 52 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences scscecsserserserscesceesees 54 OVERVIEW E EE E Minus RaAOAOUUnE 55 VIEW OPtONs scasincsacasissinssivavinisavsvansnavsvdvssansenassisssinssannvsentasnsansasstonntiansiossansvinssanaviontastvistipresiasiiehyiiy 56 Viewing Filt r C Oar ica 05 soo oda RERE ER GOUR cnbsveeayopeststeh uhdbandveatevaceytes 56 Viewing the NetUpdate Status Bar Siscesncintias convo vivnlieniesniurs indiccvsnensesiasionned econsieachaonsacansnesnarersndensianieue 56 Activating and Deactivating Antispam Protection cssssssssssec
60. tics of these messages to Personal Antispam X4 s filters and helps ensure that Personal Antispam X4 is as effective as possible As time goes by you should see little or no spam in your in box as Personal Antispam X4 learns from your e mail Good e mail that gets filed in the Spam folder when good e mail gets mistakenly filed in your Spam folder this is called a false positive Whenever you find a false positive in your Spam folder use the Learn Good E mail function or AppleScript to add its contents to Personal Antispam X4 s filters As time goes by you should see few or no false positives in your Spam folder as Personal Antispam X4 learns from your e mail Good e mail messages at the beginning train Personal Antispam X4 by selecting good e mail messages and using the Learn Good E mail function or AppleScript This helps Personal Antispam X4 recognize the type of e mail you receive Ideally you should do this for several hundred messages so depending on how much e mail you receive you may want to do this for as little as a few days or as many as several weeks Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 50 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 The more you train Personal Antispam X4 and help it learn from your e mail using the techniques above the more efficient it will become Eventually you ll find that all your spam goes into your Spam folder and that all your good e mail goes into your in box or other fo
61. tions are active but if you receive legitimate e mail from people who have these domains in URLs in their messages you can uncheck either or both of these options Settings v Consider all biz domains as Spam v Consider all info domains as Spam Viewing URL Filter Statistics To view statistics for this filter click the Show Graph button this displays a statistics graph See Viewing Antispam Statistics earlier in this manual for more on displaying statistics Statistics Hide Graph E Spams Detected 9306 25 20 15 E mails 15 00 18 00 21 00 0 00 3 00 6 00 9 00 12 00 Statistics for the last 24 hours Y Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 77 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Attachment Filter Settings Some spam can be detected by attachments files sent together with messages such as image files Other messages may contain Windows viruses which while not exactly spam can annoy you by filling your in box Personal Antispam X4 checks for certain types of attachments that may indicate spam and also checks for bat cpl pif and scr files which are only sent with messages by Windows viruses To view settings for the attachment filter click the Attachment icon in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window e080 Personal Antispam X4 Attachment Installed Services 3 13 06 Latest Services 3 9 06 Your subscription end
62. tispam X4 will have fewer messages to filter If however you place the Personal Antispam rule at the beginning of your list of rules all your messages will get filtered first by Personal Antispam X4 then by your specific rules Again this does not change the efficiency of Personal Antispam X4 but it will result in a higher number of messages being shown as analyzed in the Personal Antispam X4 statistics Note that if you use Microsoft Entourage and have mailing list information in the Mailing List Manager these messages are sorted before any other rules and will not be analyzed nor counted by Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 40 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 Configuring Personal Antispam X4 for Multiple Users You can use Personal Antispam X4 with as many user accounts as you have on your Macintosh computer However since each user has different settings for their e mail program and may use a different program one user may prefer Apple Mail and another may use Microsoft Entourage you must configure Personal Antispam X4 for each user who wishes to benefit from its functions To do this log out of the current account by selecting the Apple menu gt Log out User name then log in to a different user account Launch Personal Antispam X4 which is located in the Applications folder and the configuration assistant will open automatically Follow the same proced
63. ue Wed Thu Fr Sat Sun Mon Statistics for the last 7 days v Managing the Lexical Filter The lexical filter screen shows you all the words that Personal Antispam X4 has added to its lexical database You can examine these words to see how often they appear in good e mail messages or in spam as well as the last date and time that they were seen Words only get added to the lexical filter database when you use Personal Antispam X4 s functions or AppleScripts to learn good e mail or learn spam The more messages you teach Personal Antispam X4 the more efficient its lexical filter becomes Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 64 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences You can sort the words in the lexical filter database by clicking one of the column headers this sorts the database by that header Clicking again changes the sort order In this manner you can examine the lexical filter database in alphabetical order by the number of good or bad occurrences or by last seen date Good Bad Last Seen acceptable 24 17 3 19 06 8 30 35 PM acceptance 9 83 3 20 06 9 22 21 AM 0 accepted 18 102 3 19 06 11 03 54 AM accepting 24 64 3 20 06 9 22 01 AM If you want to remove any words from the database click a word to select it or select several words by clicking a first word holding down the Command key then clicking another word then click the button An alert will ask you if you real
64. ure as that described earlier in this chapter to configure the user s e mail program s and repeat this for all user accounts that will use Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 41 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 42 Chapter 4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 Using Intego Personal Antispam X4 After you have configured Personal Antispam X4 with the Setup Assistant Personal Antispam X4 opens and displays its main window You won t need to have Personal Antispam X4 open however for it to filter your e mail You only need to open the Personal Antispam X4 application when you want to change its preferences or settings See Chapter 5 Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences 8608 Personal Antispam X4 Installed Services 3 13 06 Latest Services 3 9 06 Your subscription ends in 16 months G Check Now Statistics I Spams Detected 157626 E mails Analyzed 195289 Statistics for the last 30 days m iy Lexical v amp Blacklist m C Whitelist Settings v Consider e mails with Asian or Cyrillic encodings as Spam m URL TA Consider e mails with Japanese encodings as Spam b v Consider ADV e mails as Spam FA m lt gt Attachment Visual Feedback l Show in Translucent Window Show Spam Detection Unless you want to change some of Personal Antispam X4 s s
65. vel of junk e mail protection would you like M None Rear junk e mail protection off Low Catch the most obvious junk e mail High Catch most junk e mail Some valid messages may be caught as well Check the junk e mail folder often Exclusive Only deliver messages from correspondents in the Address Book from domains in the Safe Domains list or to addresses in the Mailing List Manager Reroute all other incoming messages to the Junk E mail Folder Delete messages from the Junk E mail folder olderthan 30 days For more information on how junk e mail protection works close this dialog click Entourage Help on the Help menu and search for junk e mail Cancel E Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 35 Chapter 3 Configuring Intego Personal Antispam X4 When you have completed this click Continue on the Personal Antispam X4 information panel The second panel displays Personal Antispam X4 Instructions for configuring Microsoft Entourage To complete the configuration for Microsoft Entourage do the following Create a rule to filter spam with Intego Personal Antispam X4 In the Tools menu select Rules Click the tab related to the type of e mail account you have Click New to create a new rule Name the new rule Personal Antispam Click to the right of the first action in the Then section to select it then click Remove Action to delete it Remove the second act
66. y Weekly Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 66 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences Blacklist Filter Settings Personal Antispam X4 uses a blacklist and a whitelist to help filter spam A blacklist is a list of addresses from which you receive spam You can add addresses to the blacklist to block any spam that is not detected by Personal Antispam X4 s filters but that comes often from the same address The blacklist filter also allows you to add specific strings that Personal Antispam X4 will search for in message headers such as the subject the From or To headers and more You can set precise filters for most message headers allowing you to filter specific types of spam that you receive often To view settings for the blacklist filter click the Blacklist icon in the filter list at the left of the Personal Antispam X4 window e080 Personal Antispam X4 Blacklist Installed Services 3 13 06 Latest Services 3 9 06 Your subscription ends in 16 months Check Now Statistics Show Graph I Spams Detected 4255 Settings v Add sender to Blacklist when learning Object Comparator Pattern M From Js spam spam com amp Overview m iy Lexical Z Whitelist URL 9 Attachment Intego Personal Antispam X4 User s Manual Page 67 Chapter 5 Intego Personal Antispam X4 Settings and Preferences If for any reason you want to turn off the blacklist fi

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