Protect your computer against phishing emails using your Norton 360 app

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 configure Email Protection to scan all incoming and outgoing emails.

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.

Follow the below instructions to configure the Email Protection settings using your Norton 360 app.

1. Open your Norton device security product.

2. On the left pane, click Settings, and then click the Features tab.

3. Under the Security section, click Antivirus, and then click the Email Protection tab.

4.  You can select the following options:

   • 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.

Norton Safe Email, powered by Norton’s Genie AI engine, proactively scans and flags safe and suspicious emails, detecting sophisticated scams so you will know if it’s a scam before opening.

Norton Safe Email helps protect up to five email addresses against phishing emails and malicious attachments. Its cloud-based technology flags emails as safe or potentially suspicious before you open them. For more information about Norton Safe Email, see FAQ: Norton Safe Email.

Follow the below instructions to set up Norton Safe Email.

1. Open your Norton device security product.

2. On your Norton 360 app main window, click Genie Scam Protection Pro.

3. Enter your Norton account email address and password.

4. On the Genie Scam Protection Pro page, next to Safe Email, click Add Email.

5. Click Add Email Account.

6. Enter your email address, click Continue, and then follow the on-screen instructions.