phishing net suggestion

[Julian Field]

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I've just taken a look at this problem. It would be a real pig to
implement this. The way the HTML parser works makes this almost
impossible, and I'm not about to rewrite someone else's entire HTML
parser to use a different data structure.

Sorry.

The problem I hit was that getting rid of the opening <a> tag pointing
to the phishing site cannot be removed. I managed pretty much all the
rest of it. :-(

Mark Nienberg wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>
>
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