Phishing detection gets confused by malformed HTML

[Julian Field]

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John Wilcock wrote:

> If you have a bit more time for phishing mods, how about the two false
> positive cases I reported in January?
>
>> Click here to <a href="http://www.example.com/">visit
>> www.example.com</a>
>
Only looking at the last "word" in the text is a dodgy thing to do as
spammers could completely defeat it by putting in 1 space in the text,
and most users wouldn't notice the extra space.

>> <a href="http://www.example.com/">all about .net technology</a>
>
Look for .net with a space both sides of it? It would help but wouldn't
be a complete solution by any means.

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