
McAfee SaaS Email Protection Training Guide – Group Administrator Role
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8.1.1.1. Threat Policy Configuration
The Threat tab allows you to enable or disable anti-phishing and anti-spyware filtering
Phishing: A phishing web site masquerades as a legitimate business and attempts to fraudulently
capture sensitive information such as passwords or credit card details.
Spyware: Spyware is software that takes control of your computer, modifies computer settings,
collects or reports personal information, or misrepresents itself by tricking users to install, download,
or enter personal information. This includes drive-by downloads; browser hijackers; dialers; intrusive
advertising; any program which modifies your homepage, bookmarks, or security settings; and key
loggers. It also includes any software that bundles spyware (as defined above) as part of its offering.
Information collected or reported is "personal" if it contains uniquely identifying data, such as email
addresses, name, social security number, ip address, etc. A site is not classified as spyware if the
user is reasonably notified that the software will perform these actions
The McAfee Gateway scanner enhances the anti-malware capabilities of the SaaS Web Protection
service. It detects and blocks malware threats; viruses and worms to adware, spyware, and
riskware. The McAfee anti-malware engine inspects exotic formats, such as WordML and Office
Open XML at the gateway; before they enter the network. To further protect users against emerging
malware threats, zero-day threats, and targeted attacks, the McAfee anti-malware engine focuses on
generic and heuristic detection of malware
By default, Anti-Phishing and Anti-Spyware are both enabled (on)
Threat filtering is only available with the following Web Protection service packages: Threat Control
and Total Control
Anti-Virus filtering is available for all Web Protection service packages and cannot be disabled.
McAfee will scan files up to 400 MB in size for viruses. Files greater than 400 MB in size can be
downloaded, however these files are not filtered for Viruses.
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