Spam protection

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Special offers, advertisements, newsletters – the flood of unwanted emails increases every day. Is your inbox overflowing with vast amounts of unwanted electronic mail? The G Data software will use a combination of the most up-to-date spam checking criteria to securely protect you from spam/junk mail, block spam senders effectively and prevent false positives.

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If you click on the Spam Protection header, a choice of actions that can be carried out directly from here is displayed.

Protocol: Spam: Here you are provided with an overview of all email categorised as spam by the G Data software. You can use the Update button to retrieve the most up-to-date data version for the software and the Delete button to delete all previously marked entries. The email messages themselves, which are held in your email client, are not deleted of course.

You can use the Add to whitelist button to add a highlighted email to the whitelist, thus generally excluding the relevant email address from further spam checks. You can use the Add to blacklist button to add a highlighted email to the blacklist, thus generally subjecting the relevant email address to extensive checks for spam elements.

Protocol: No spam: Here you are provided with an overview of all email not defined as spam by the G Data software. You can use the Update button to retrieve the most up-to-date data version for the software and the Delete button to delete all previously marked entries. The email messages themselves, which are held in your email client, are not deleted of course.

 

Whitelist: Certain sender addresses or domains can be explicitly excluded from spam testing via the Whitelist. Simply enter the email address (e.g. newsletter@infosite.com) or domain (e.g. infosite.com) that you want to exclude from suspected spam in the Addresses/Domains field and the G Data software will process messages from that sender or sender domain as not spam. You can use the Import button to insert predefined lists of email addresses or domains into the whitelist. Each address or domain must be listed on a separate line. A plain txt file format is used for storing this list; you can create this list using Windows Notepad for example. You can also use the Export button to export whitelists as text files.

 

Blacklist: Certain sender addresses or domains can be explicitly flagged as suspected spam via the blacklist. Simply enter the email address (e.g. newsletter@megaspam.de.vu) or domain (e.g. megaspam.de.vu) that you want to check for spam in the Addresses/Domains field and the G Data software will generally process emails from that sender or sender domain as email with a very high spam probability. You can use the Import button to insert predefined lists of email addresses or domains into the blacklist. Each address or domain must be listed on a separate line. A plain txt file format is used for storing this list; you can create this list using Windows Notepad for example. With the Export button you can export blacklists as text files.

Disable spam protection: If necessary you can disable spam protection on your computer here, e.g. if do not have an email client of any kind installed on your computer.

Settings: You can use this button to access basic settings options if necessary. Please read about this in the section entitled: Settings - AntiSpam