Green Screen Week - Transcript

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David Lawrence: You didn*t go out and buy it. So what it is, is its set for the highest possible let*s protect Mary setting. You can vary and tune any Antivirus, Anti Spam software and it should learn overtime what is spam to you. What I would do is I would go into the McAfee security center and I would read the help files on how the mail filtering system works. You may have everything set so high that only the most innocuous pieces of E-mail get into your actual inbox, in Outlook Express, and McAfee. It will then show you how you can vary the little tuning features to make sure that certain things do get through. You can also white list certain E-mail addresses from people that you know which lowers your ability to protect yourself from spam because a lot of spammers will actually send out E-mail that have the from lines you know from so and so spoofed. And they often will use attacks that go after friends of yours and their address books and if you are in their address book you may get a virus addressed to you from that friend, even though it*s not coming from them, it*s coming from a virus on their computers. So you kind of want to experiment with that and see what works for you and what doesn*t. And the help files aren't that hard to understand when it comes to this stuff. Now it maybe early for you in terms of getting you know you can always find your E-mail by either going to the security center, by going to your inbox eventually you can find it and read it. It maybe a little early for you as you are getting used to your computer to understand all that they are talking about in the help files but I would do it anyway and if you don*t understand something you know give me a call and I will see what I can do. But I would review those because often they will speak in very plain English. Microsoft is getting better about that in their help files. In very plain English about how things work and how you can change the settings to loosen or tighten the restrictions that they have on your inbound E-mail. Because what*s happening right now is all of your E-mail is being scanned as you get it by McAfee. And it*s only letting the most what it considers the most clean E-mail through to your inbox, everything else is being captured by McAfee. And let me just point out if I were to use McAfee on my machine, that*s exactly what would happen on my machine if it was tuned properly. Most of the E-mail that I get 90-95% of the E-mail that I get is spam so it maybe working just fine. Now if there are false positives meaning that McAfee is holding back and filtering stuff that you know isn't spam that*s where these adjustments come in. Where you say no, no that*s from a friend of mine let that go through or this whole domain you know just make sure you, you know anything come through from there, that's my husband*s company or whatever it is. You start to adjust these things and you will start to see how they loosen up and how they tighten up and that*s what you should do and that will help you out a great deal alright.

Mary: Okay so just go into McAfee find the help thing.

David Lawrence: Always in any software that you use on a Windows machine the very last item of the very last menu is usually the help or about item. And on that menu is also help or about if it*s not the last one. And then from there you can, it*s amazing what you learn, when you actually just read the help files oh I can do that, wait a minute I can do, I can do Windows P and it will Print, or I can do Windows C and it will Copy and Windows V and it will Paste wow I didn*t know that. I don*t even have to take my fingers off the key board I had no idea. So there is all kinds of things that you can learn by slicing through there and sometimes it*s a little confusing, sometimes its*

Mary: Well I have to say in 2 weeks I have learned an awful lot. I am amazed because I started this with great trepidation and I am much better now.

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