phishing detection bug

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Feb 18 12:36:33 GMT 2005


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Do you mean name= instead of href=? If not, I will take a look this
afternoon.

John French wrote:

>when a user mixes up their anchor text vs. href, mailscanner is not closing
>out its "before" tags, making the rest of the messge red.  below is a
>before and after.
>
>before:
>before&nbsp;<a href="link">http://www.emich.edu</a> after<br>
>
>after:
>before&nbsp;<a href="link"></b></font><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has
>detected a possible fraud attempt from "link" claiming to be
>http://www.emich.edu</a> after<br>
>
>Is there a Message.pm that already addresses this?
>
>Thanks!
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