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Protecting Your Mailbox from Viruses

To defend your system from viruses, do not open suspicious e-mail attachments, enable anti-virus protection on the server side, if this service is provided by your hosting company, and be sure to have a firewall and anti-virus software installed on your personal computer. Also keep your operating system up-to-date and timely install security hot fixes and patches.

To switch on server-side anti-virus protection:

  1. On your Home page, click the Dr.Web icon in the Tools group.
  2. Choose the desired mail scanning mode. You can switch on scanning for incoming mail, outgoing mail, or both.
  3. Click OK.

When an infected e-mail message arrives, the appropriate notice is sent to you and the message is placed into a quarantine directory on the server. Only the server administrator can view infected messages stored in the quarantine directory.

To switch off anti-virus protection:

  1. On your Home page, click the Dr.Web icon in the Tools group.
  2. Select the Disabled option and click OK.