over zealous phishing warnings

[Matt Kettler]

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hermit921 wrote:
> I receive a well respected email newsletter called Crypto-gram.  It
> contains many links to the sender's web site for more detailed
> information. Below are some of the warnings I get.  How literal are the
> phishing specifications?

How literal they are depends a bit on your version of MailScanner. There's been
a lot of updates to the phishing net over the past year.

Some of those warnings are quite outrageous. Certainly the warning about:

"www.schneier.com" claiming to be <http://www.schneier.com>

is a problem. The phishing net should at minimum tolerate that.

 If you're on a current version, I'd consider it a bug. If not, I'd consider
updating to see if it's been fixed.

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