phishing detection bug

Fri Feb 18 19:40:50 GMT 2005

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Don't URLs in emails require a http:// ?  Or at least a tp:// (an ftp
link).  Maybe I'm missing something because I'm not even sure what <a
href="blah"> would do in an email...  On a website that would point to
the subdirectory blah of the current directory, but emails don't have
directories.

Daniel

Julian Field wrote:

> Okay, a simple trap for this one would be that the real URL must contain
> at least one "." character. How about that?
>
> John French wrote:
>
>> The problem definitely seems to be when the href= doesn't contain a url,
>> but the text between the > and </a> does.  Here's another example:
>>
>> before:
>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
>> test&nbsp;<a href="thisisnotaurl">http://thisisaurl.com</a> test<br>
>> </body>
>>
>> after:
>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
>> test&nbsp;<a href="thisisnotaurl"></b></font><font
>> color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt
>> from "thisisnotaurl" claiming to be</b></font> <font
>> color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt
>> from "thisisnotaurl" claiming to be http://thisisaurl.com</a> test<br>
>> </body>
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