"David Stinson" wrote in message
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I'm having good success with filtering the SWEN worm garbage
using these filter terms (*letter case and phrases count*):

Filtering for SUBJECT:
Pack, Net Security, Upgrade, Update, Internet, Returned Mail,
User unknown, Returned to Mailer, Critical, failure,
Letter, Advice, Announcement, Message, Latest, Bug, Error,
Notice, Network, Security, Undelivered Mail, Status Notification,
Undeliverable.

Filtering for SENDER:
Microsoft, MS, Internet, network, Net Email, Administrator, Customer,
webservice, Message, Mail Delivery, webbot

So far, it's nailing about 95% of the stuff.
Be sure to check trash before deleting it, since
I was catching one "good" user when I included "ms"
uncapitalized by mistake.

Good luck weathering the storm,
Dave Stinson AB5S


I started to kill the beast using filters, but there always seemed to be a
couple of new ones needed for each new onslaught.

I found that it was much less frustrating to use my Norton Antivirus which
has an email option that automatically sends anything containing a virus in
its definitions file (which was automatically updated to include swen)
directly to the Deleted Items folder without human intervention. Then I
check that folder when convenient before deleting everything with a click.
So far it's worked 100%.

Marty K1FHR