Phishing Trouble

Rabellino Sergio rabellino at DI.UNITO.IT
Thu Aug 18 10:53:10 IST 2005


Julian Field wrote:
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> I would suspect you are going through 2 MailScanner servers.
> I need to add a bit more intelligence so that it notices it has  
> already been tagged once and doesn't tag it a second time.
> 
> On 18 Aug 2005, at 09:59, Rabellino Sergio wrote:
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> 
>>Dear list,
>> I have a trouble with the phishing detection as stated below:
>>
>><td class="trouble"><a href="http://www.informit.com/click.ashx? 
>>dk=3928&u=3FD68173-50E2-49D5-B1BB-F837D0F828F3&r=%2fnewsletters% 
>>2fwhatsnew.asp%3fni%3d101%26st%3d45774"></b></font><font  
>>color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt  
>>from "www.informit.com" claiming to be</b></font> <font  
>>color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt  
>>from "www.informit.com" claiming to be Having trouble viewing the e- 
>>mail below?<br />http://www.informit.com/newsletters/whatsnew.asp? 
>>ni=101&st=45774</a></td>
>>
>>I understand why the link is a phishing link, but why the  
>>MailScanner fraud message is repeated twice ?
>>Regular expression bug ?
>>
>>I'm using MailScanner 4.44.6 with SA 3.0.4 on Solaris 9/perl 5.8.0.
>>
>>Thanks.

These are the full headers (blanked where needed with XXX)

Return-Path: <owner-nolist-INFORMIT_PROMO-20050818-#*pXXXis**DI*-UNITO*-IT at mailer.informit.com>
Received: via tmail-2002(14) for pXXXris; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:56:16 +0200 (MEST)
Received: from mailer.informit.com (mailer.informit.com [168.215.198.88])
	 by pianeta.di.unito.it (INFO-DIP) with ESMTP id j7I7rXXX0324
	 for <pXXXs at DI.UNITO.IT>; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:56:09 +0200 (MEST)
Message-Id: <200508180756.j7I7rXXX00324 at pianeta.di.unito.it>
Received: from indims101 (mailer.informit.com) by mailer.informit.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id 
<0.000003EB at mailer.informit.com>; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 2:17:45 -0500
To: pXXXis at DI.UNITO.IT
From: "InformIT Promotions" <bookstore at informit.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:14:51 -0500
Subject: -- DISARMED CONTENT -- The Art of Computer Programming Revisited
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
               boundary="_=_nextpart_INFORMIT_PROMO_20050818"
X-dipinfo-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Department of Computer Science technical staff for more information
X-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-0.775, required 5,
	BAYES_00 -2.60, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTML_WEB_BUGS 0.04,
	MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER 0.05, MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID 1.72,
	URI_REDIRECTOR 0.01)
X-MailScanner-From: owner-nolist-informit_promo-20050818-#*pXXXs**di*-unito*-it at mailer.informit.com

Only a MailScanner was run on this message, I believe.
-- 
Dott. Mag. Sergio Rabellino

  Technical Staff
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Torino (Italy)

http://www.di.unito.it/~rabser
Tel. +39-0116706701
Fax. +39-011751603

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