Phishing is not working

Kai Wang kwang at UCALGARY.CA
Mon Jul 18 18:55:59 IST 2005


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My "Dangerous Content Scanning" is yes. The phishing message is very 
obvious. You can see it in here:

http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~kwang/phishing

Kai

Julian Field wrote:

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>That's interesting, I have never heard of this before. Do you have 
>Dangerous Content Scanning = yes? Have you tried manually feeding it a 
>message with an obvious phish in it?
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>Michael Baird wrote:
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>>Same here, I've never been able to get the phishing detection in
>>mailscanner to work, luckily my virus scanners do pick up many of the
>>attacks. If you figure out, be kind enough to post the fix. 
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>>Regards
>>Michael Baird
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>We are running MailScanner 4.43.8-1 and I turned the phishing feature 
>>>on. My phishing.safe.sites.conf file is the default.  we receive tens of 
>>>thousands messages daily and we've been running this version for a few 
>>>days. We have not seen any message caught by the feature. I received a 
>>>phishing message myself. I tried to attach it to the message such that I 
>>>can explain my situation better. However, Julian's JISCmail mailer does 
>>>not like it. Apparently, MailScanner is able to identify the phishing 
>>>thing. I wonder if there is anything wrong in my configuration?
>>>
>>>Find Phishing Fraud = yes
>>>Also Find Numeric Phishing = yes
>>>Phishing Safe Sites File = %etc-dir%/phishing.safe.sites.conf
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Kai Wang
>>>University of Calgary
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