Learn more about customizing Email Antivirus Scan

What to scan

You can decide what to scan using the following options:

• Scan incoming email messages

  Automatically scans any email message attachments that you receive for threats

• Scan outgoing email messages

  Automatically scans any email message attachments that you send for threats

How to increase protection

You can increase the email protection using the following options:

• Scan outgoing messages for suspected worms

  Turns on scanning to detect suspected worms in your outgoing email messages and alerts you if a threat is detected

• How to respond when an outbound threat is found

  If Norton detects a threat in an outgoing email message, you have the following options:

  • Automatically remove (Recommended)

    Provides you the greatest protection by automatically removing detected suspected email worms from your computer without interacting with you

  • Ask me what to do

    Provides you the greatest control when a suspected email worm is detected. You choose what to do at each phase of the risk response process. A summary window appears detailing all of the actions that were taken

What to do when scanning email messages

You can use the following options:

• Protect against timeouts

  Keeps your email client from displaying timeout errors when Norton scans large attachments

• Display progress indicator

  Displays a progress window while Norton scans your outgoing email messages