Message strangeness from ZDnet

[James Gray]

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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:17 pm, Rakesh wrote:
> Well just an alert, whitelisting chkpt.zdnet.com in your
> phishing.safe.sites.conf  might be a bit risky. I just came across this
> link which serves as Open redirector for chkpt.zdnet.com.  Just click on
> the link below to get redirection to the MailScanner site from Zdnet.
> You can also replace www.mailscanner.info with your favourite site to
> get the redirection. MailScanner phishing fraud is probably doing the
> right thing on trapping down this kind of redirector.
>
> http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/wenot/www.mailscanner.info/
>
>
> Till this redirector is fixed, whitelisting it may be a bit risky.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I've removed that redirector from the whitelist 
and sent a friendly mail to the fine folks at ZDnet :)  We'll see if they 
do anything...I'm not holding my breath.

James
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