Norton 360 Support - Norton AntiSpam
Norton AntiSpam lets you categorize the email messages that you receive in your email programs into spam email and clean email. It filters clean email into the Inbox folder and spam email into the Spam folder or the Junk E-mail folder.
It helps you to customize your protection by identifying the particular text strings that should and should not be filtered. This process helps you ensure that messages from trusted senders do not get marked as spam.
Norton AntiSpam uses Bayesian technology in its pattern-matching engine to compare the contents of incoming email messages to a list of spam characteristics.
If the message contains many spam characteristics, it is more likely to be spam than a message that contains few spam characteristics. Based on this analysis, Norton AntiSpam estimates the likelihood that the message is spam.
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Some email servers use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connections to encrypt connections between your computer and the server. Norton AntiSpam cannot scan the email messages that are received through SSL connections. |
Norton AntiSpam uses spam rules, the user-defined Allowed List and Blocked List, and email heuristics to expedite the scanning of email. Based on your email preferences and the settings, Norton AntiSpam also trains itself to identify spam.
It allows and blocks email from individual email addresses and domains. It accepts email from the list of allowed email senders and blocks email from the list of blocked email senders. It also helps you keep your list of allowed email senders in sync by automatically importing lists of addresses from supported email programs.
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Turning off Norton AntiSpam increases your exposure to receive unsolicited email messages. Always ensure that Norton AntiSpam is turned on. It secures your email client from unwanted online content. |
In Security History, you can review the information about the sender, recipient, subject of each email message that you received, and the scan result.
