Phishing fraud question

[Julian Field]

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Any idea how it's doing it? My approach doesn't use any virus signatures
and works with any virus scanner. Are you getting any false negatives at all?

At 11:05 14/10/2004, you wrote:
>I'm not sure how it works but all phishing mails we seem to get are
>blocked by clamav 0.80-rc3 and marked as a virus.
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>Haven't seen a single false positive yet.
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>Maybe ppl could try clamav 0.80-rc3 to see what their results are?
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>On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Julian Field wrote:
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>>I want your opinion.
>>
>>When things like scripts and forms are detected in emails, they are just
>>quietly disarmed without any subject line tagging at all.
>>
>>Should I do the same with phishing fraud attempts? The warning in the
>>message will be put in right next to the offending link.
>>
>>It's just that phishing detection does detect quite a few false positives
>>due to the stupidity of a lot of newsletter authors who put "fake" links in
>>their material. I don't want people to become used to seeing "{Dangerous
>>Content?}" or whatever, and therefore ignoring it.
>>
>>I have tagged the subject line so far, and I think it is already starting
>>to cause problems. I am tending towards removing the subject tag.
>>
>>Any thoughts please?

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