over zealous phishing warnings

[hermit921]

At 02:51 PM 11/16/2005, 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.
>
>  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.

We are on version 4.46.2, not quite the most recent, but really close.

hermit921 

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