phishing net suggestion

[Mark Nienberg]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

Hmm.  Maybe.  I'm currently running 4.37.7.  Are there more options in
the latest version or should I just play with the two settings in
"languages.conf" (PossibleFraudStart and PossibleFraudEnd)?

Julian Field wrote:

> Good idea. How much of this can actually be achieved by customising the
> currently available options and text strings (languages.conf) ?
>
> Mark Nienberg wrote:
>
>> Is there any chance an option could be added to the phishing net feature
>> so when MailScanner dectects something like this:
>>
>> <a href="http://www.phishing.link">http://www.display.link</a>
>>
>> it replaces it with somethng like this:
>>
>> <a
>> href="http://www.mydomain.com/warning.php?link=www.phishing.link&display=www.display.link">http://www.display.link</a>
>>
>>
>>
>> Then, if the user clicks on the link, he or she will be taken to a
>> dynamically generated (php or a perl cgi) page on our own website that
>> will explain the potential phishing attack, show the link as it
>> displays, and show the actual link.  It could include a working link to
>> the actual link in case the user really wants to go there (or in case of
>> false positive).  Help desk info, etc could also be included.
>>
>> It has the advantage that false positives are not even noticeable unless
>> the user clicks on the link.  It allows a much better explanation of
>> what the possible problem is.  It could include links to general
>> information on the internet regarding phishing, etc.
>>
>> I suppose someone who runs a high volume website could even have a
>> generic page for other mailscaner admins to use if they don't have their
>> own webserver set up.
>>


--
Mark Nienberg, SE
Tipping Mar + associates
1906 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
http://www.tippingmar.com

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the MAQ (http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!