Chapter 11. Dr.Web for Outlook

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General Functions

Dr.Web for Outlook plug-in performs the following functions:

Antivirus check of e-mail attachments transferred via SMTP, POP3 and HTTP protocols.

Check of e-mail attachments transferred via SSL encrypted connections.

Spam check.

Detection and neutralizing of malicious objects.

Malware detection.

Heuristic analysis for additional protection against unknown viruses.

Enabling/Disabling

To enable or disable Dr.Web for Outlook plug-in, use the Agent context menu.

Dr.Web for Outlook Plug-In Configuring

You can set up the parameters of the plug-in operation and review the statistics at the Microsoft Outlook mail application, in the Service Parameters Dr.Web Anti-virus tab.

 

The Dr.Web Anti-virus tab of Microsoft Outlook parameters are active only if user has permissions to change these settings. The permissions are set at the Server by the antivirus network administrator.

 

For details on a certain option, click a corresponding item in the picture.

On Dr.Web Anti-Virus tab, the current protection status is displayed (enabled/disabled) and it provided the access to the following program functions:

Log - allows to configure the program logging.

Check attachments - allows to configure the e-mails check and to specify the program actions for the detected malicious objects.

Spam filter - allows to specify the program actions for spam and to create black and white lists of e-mail addresses.

Statistics - allows to review the number of checked and processed objects.