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« Another variation of the greeting card virus spreader  
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kpatz
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Re: Fake e-card viruses getting harder to stop

An even better way to filter this crap out is to filter any email with an IP address URL in it... in other words, http colon slash slash followed by numeric digits. Some of the newer ones make no mention of e-card or greeting card whatsoever, so subject line filters are no longer effective.

If you can filter using regular expressions:
will do the trick.

If you can't use wildcards or regular expressions (say, in Outlook), set up a rule that filters on:


If you legitimately receive emails with IP address URLs to internal servers (say in a work environment), set up an exception for those, such as


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Windows Vista has detected that your mouse was moved. In order to enhance your user experience, Vista needs to contact Microsoft to re-activate the software. Please make sure you are connected to the Internet, have your credit card handy, then click OK.


DataDoc
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Even easier, in Outlook, just junk any sender not in your Contacts list.
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