Phishing fraud question

[Remco Barendse]

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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> 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?

No idea at all, and I'm not on the clam list. Googling around a bit it
seems that they are defining the phishy stuff in their datfiles

At the current speed of newly emerging ponds I think their datfiles will
grow rapidly :)

So far I have seen a catch rate of 100% and no FP :)

>
> 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.
>>
>> Haven't seen a single false positive yet.
>>
>> Maybe ppl could try clamav 0.80-rc3 to see what their results are?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>> 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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