over zealous phishing warnings

[Julian Field]

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On 16 Nov 2005, at 22:51, Matt Kettler wrote:

> 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.

It does. This was fixed a little while ago. Please consider upgrading.

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