IP phishing false positive

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Apr 18 09:41:28 IST 2005


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Quentin Campbell wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list
>>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>>Sent: 16 April 2005 09:06
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: IP phishing false positive
>>
>>
>>
>[snip]
>
>
>>Add this to your /etc/MailScanner/reports/en/languages.conf (or
>>equivalent) file:
>>NumericLinkWarning = <font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning:
>>numerical
>>links are often malicious:</b></font>
>>(That should all be on 1 line)
>>
>>and apply the attached patch to your Message.pm.
>>
>>This is for 4.40-11 and I don't guarantee your success if you try to
>>apply the patch to other versions unless you do it by hand.
>>
>>Hopefully this solves the problem okay.
>>
>>
>
>Julian
>
>Where will I find a downloadable version of MS with all these latest
>changes/fixes?
>
>The "Beta releases for testing" page cannot be accessed on the
>MailScanner web site.
>
>I am about to upgrade MS and want all the latest features & fixes since
>4.40-11 was announced.
>
>
>
I will put out a beta shortly, once Peter Peters reports news about the
change I just posted.

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