Links in {Disarmed} Messages Still Function

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Aug 23 18:37:19 IST 2005


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Ed Bruce wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>>
>> The "Disarmed Modify" does what it says on the tin, it modifies the  
>> subject line if any HTML tags were "disarmed", i.e. altered due to a  
>> "disarm" request in MailScanner.conf.
>>
> If I receive an email with no tags that are disarmed the subject is 
> not changed if a link is modified by MS?

Correct. I didn't want the phishing net to obviously cry wolf where it 
got it wrong. The link has not been disarmed, it still works and has 
only had its appearance changed.

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