Mail Threat Protection settings

You can perform the following actions for configuring the Mail Threat Protection component:

• Change the mail security level.

  You can select one of the pre-installed email security levels or configure a custom email security level.

  If you have changed the email security level settings, you can always revert to the recommended email security level settings.

• Change the action that Kaspersky Endpoint Security performs on infected messages.
• Form the protection scope of the Mail Threat Protection component.
• Configure scanning of compound files attached to email messages.

  You can enable or disable scanning of message attachments, limit the maximum size of message attachments to be scanned, and limit the maximum message attachment scan duration.

• Configure filtering by the type of email message attachments.

  Filtering of message attachments by type allows for automatic renaming or deletion of files of the specified types.

• Configure Heuristic Analyzer.

  To increase the effectiveness of protection, you can use heuristic analysis. During heuristic analysis, Kaspersky Endpoint Security analyzes the activity of applications in the operating system. Heuristic analysis can detect threats in messages for which there are currently no records in the Kaspersky Endpoint Security databases.

  The technology was developed for detecting threats that cannot be detected by using the current version of Kaspersky application databases. It detects files that may be infected with an unknown virus or a new variety of a known virus.

• Configure email scanning in Microsoft Office Outlook.

  An embeddable extension is available for the Microsoft Office Outlook mail client that allows convenient configuration of mail scan settings.

  When working with other mail clients, including Microsoft Outlook Express®, Windows Mail, and Mozilla™ Thunderbird™, the Mail Threat Protection component scans traffic of the SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and NNTP mail protocols.

  When working with the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client, the Mail Threat Protection component does not scan messages that are transmitted via the IMAP protocol for viruses and other threats if filters are used to move messages from the Inbox folder.

In this section: Changing the mail security level Changing the action to take on infected email messages Forming the protection scope of the Mail Threat Protection component Scanning compound files attached to email messages Filtering email message attachments

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