E-Mail
viruses are spread as "e-mail attachments" files sent together with
the actual e-mail message. E-mail clients like Microsoft Outlook� Express don't
provide you with optimum protection to make sure that this doesn't happen. They
allow you to run attachments immediately just by clicking on them, and sometimes
they will even be run automatically as soon as they are received. This program
will either delete the mail containing the attachment or it will rename the
attachments.
In
recent months millions of machines have been infected with viruses transmitted
through e-mail attachments like Melissa, I Love You, Love Bug
and AnnaKournikova. These viruses and many others like them have
already
caused
a tremendous damage on computers all over the world - and who knows what new
surprises are in those fresh mails waiting in the in-box? Ashampoo Mail Virus
Blocker provides effective protection against viruses transmitted
through mail attachments.
Ashampoo
Mail Virus Blocker
identifies and blocks potentially dangerous attachments before they are
received by the user's e-mail program. Depending
on the settings, Ashampoo Mail Virus Blocker will either delete the
mail containing the attachment or it will rename the attachments.
Renaming attachments makes them harmless, because it is then no longer
possible to execute them by clicking on them.
Ashampoo
Mail Virus Blocker is designed primarily for use with Microsoft Outlook�
Express. However, it can also be used with any other e-mail client that allows
configuration of the necessary settings, including all versions of
Microsoft
Outlook�. In Microsoft Outlook� XP/2002 the program also makes it possible to
receive Level 1 attachments by renaming them before they are received by
the mail client. (Some users find it annoying that the Outlook XP/2002 blocks
these attachments without providing an option for letting them through.)
