Phishing net and international characters

[Denis Beauchemin]

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Hello Julian,

Someone told me that our phishing net believes ALL accented characters 
are bad, as seen here:
<a href="http://www.%E9.com"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner 
soup&ccedil;onne le lien "www._BAD_.com" d'&ecirc;tre une tentative de 
fraude de la part de</b></font> www.&eacute;.com</a><br>

The source of the message was:
<a href="http://www.%E9.com">www.&eacute;.com</a>

I know there are many vulnerabilities with IDN, but they will probably 
get mainstream soon.  I found this article about Netscape 7 that dates 
back July 2003: 
http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/viewsource/2003/idn/index_en.html

So, is this a bug in MS or a desing decision?

Thanks again!

Denis

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