All major virus lately (think "Melissa" and "Love Bug") have been using e-mail protocol to spread themselves - often take advantage of address-book features of e-mail client to identify their victims. E-mail Virus Protection Handbook explores how you, as administrator of the e-mail server (and possibly some network resources that surround it), can protect a user from loss of productivity resulting from e-mail virus infection. This book is suitable for small network administrators who have the responsibility (and direct control over) and an extensive network firewall antivirus strategy, as well as e-mail reader on the client side. The authors of this book (and there are a few) began by explaining how and why e-mail viruses work - they point fingers, especially on software that is designed for presentation slippery mail is not for security, as well as the uninformed end users. They also explore how to configure the popular e-mail servers and clients for maximum resistance to the virus.