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Learn more about Email Protection

Applicable for: Windows

Norton automatically configures your email program for protection against viruses and other security threats. You can configure Email Protection to scan all incoming and outgoing emails. By scanning incoming email messages, you protect your computer against the viruses that others send to you. By scanning outgoing email messages, you do not inadvertently transmit viruses or worms to others. This way, Norton helps protect your computer against the threats you might receive or send in email attachments.

Email protection monitors the communications ports used for email and intercepting email transmissions. After scanning incoming email messages, they are passed along to the email program.

You can define how Norton should behave when it scans email messages. Based on the options you choose, Norton automatically scans the email messages that you send or receive.

You can select the following options in the Email Protection settings:

  • Scan inbound emails (POP3, IMAP4)

    Automatically scans any email message attachments that you receive for threats.

  • Scan outbound emails (SMTP)

    Automatically scans any email message attachments that you send for threats.

  • Add signature to the end of sent emails

    Automatically adds a signature to the emails you send.

  • Scan attachments while attaching

    Scans the files that you add as attachments for threats.

  • Add to subject of emails with dangerous attachment

    Lets you customize the label text for emails with suspicious attachments. By default, any suspicious email is marked with a ***VIRUS*** label.

  • Generate report file

    Generates a report file with all the Email Protection events. You can find this report file at the following path:

    C:\ProgramData\Norton\Report

    If required, you can send this report to Norton for analysis. For more information, see Report a spam or scam email to Norton.

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DocID: v20240108175903677
Last modified: 04/24/2025

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