Learn more about Norton AntiSpam

Norton AntiSpam lets you categorize the email messages that you receive in your email programs into spam email and legitimate email. It filters legitimate email into the Inbox folder and spam email into the Junk folder or the Norton AntiSpam folder.

The Norton AntiSpam local filters use Whitelist technique, Blacklist technique, and patented filtering technology to classify email messages as spam or legitimate. For these filters to work efficiently, Norton AntiSpam requires antispam definition updates at regular intervals through LiveUpdate. These updates contain signature information of spam and legitimate email messages. The updates also contain any new rule that Norton creates to filter spam email messages.

Norton AntiSpam uses enterprise-class, spam-filtering technology to classify the spam email messages from legitimate email messages. Norton AntiSpam uses a real-time filter delivery mechanism and filters email messages using various local filters at different levels. The local filters classify the email messages as spam or legitimate. If the local filters classify the email message as legitimate, Norton AntiSpam collects information such as signature and URL hashes of the email message. Norton AntiSpam then sends this information to the Norton web server for additional analysis.

When the email message is classified as spam, Norton AntiSpam changes the subject of the email message and sends it to your email client. The email client identifies the change in the subject of the email message and moves it to the Junk folder or the Norton AntiSpam folder.

Norton AntiSpam uses predefined email rules and the user-defined Allowed List and Blocked List, to expedite the scanning of email. It accepts email messages from the list of allowed email senders and blocks email messages from the list of blocked email senders.

Norton AntiSpam also automatically imports the lists of addresses from supported email programs during the initial integration. It helps you keep your list of allowed and blocked email senders in sync with your current address books. When Norton AntiSpam imports the addresses from your Outlook address book or Windows address book, it also imports the addresses that are available in the Safe Sender and the Blocked Sender lists.

Turning off Norton AntiSpam increases your exposure to receive unsolicited email messages. Always ensure that Norton AntiSpam is turned on. It secures your email client from unwanted online content.

Import of Safe Sender and the Blocked Sender lists are not supported on Microsoft Outlook 2010 or later.

You can review all the antispam statistics under the AntiSpam category in the Security History window.

When you open your email client, the welcome screen appears. If you do not want the welcome screen to appear in the future, check the Don't show this again option before you click Close.

Norton AntiSpam adds a drop-down list or a few options to the toolbar of supported email programs.

You can use the following options:

Open Norton AntiSpam	Displays the AntiSpam settings window.
This is Spam	Marks the selected email as spam and moves the email message into the Junk folder or the Norton AntiSpam folder. When you reclassify an email message as spam, your Norton product displays a message whether or not to add the sender's email address to the Blocked List. This message appears depending on the option that you select in the drop-down list present at the bottom of the Blocked List window.
This is not Spam	Marks the selected email as allowed (not spam) and moves the email message into the Inbox. When you reclassify an email message as legitimate, your Norton product displays a message whether or not to add the sender's email address to the Allowed List. This message appears depending on the option that you select in the drop-down list present at the bottom of the Allowed List window.
Empty Spam Folder	Removes all email that has been placed in the Junk folder or the Norton AntiSpam folder.

Enable Norton AntiSpam plugin in Outlook using my Norton product

Open your Norton device security product.

If you see the My Norton window, next to Device Security, click Open.
In the Norton product main window, click Settings.
In the Settings window, click AntiSpam.
On the Client Integration tab, click the Register Addin option to enable Norton Antispam in Outlook Add-Ins.
Click Apply, and then click Close.

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