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How you can protect your email
- Connect to AirOrangeX, our secure wireless network.
- Know how to avoid Scams, hoaxes and phishing.
- Find out about Password security.
- Connect via Remote Access securely.
- Regularly change your password.
- Try to not keep your passwords similar, ie if your first password is "Password" don't make the next one "Password1". Try to keep them different.
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- Email arriving from the Internet is scanned for viruses and spam by an anti-virus/anti-spam engine. Messages containing viruses or spam are deleted.
- Email exiting the campus by way of smtp-host.syr.edu or through the mail exchangers is similarly filtered.
- Email that is sent outbound through Exchange is not scanned for anti-virus or anti-spam.
- Email inbound to SUmail is scanned.
- Student SUMail accounts require two-factor authentication.
- Listserv.syr.edu runs the F-secure antivirus scanner against all e-mail it processes.
- Desktop antivirus software applications also scan incoming and outgoing email in some, but not all, cases.
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