phishing detection not working?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jan 24 12:03:26 GMT 2006


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This is fixed in 4.50. Sorry, I missed putting it in the Change Log.
For now, just set one of the dangerous content checks to disarm or no.
Then it will work again.

On 24 Jan 2006, at 11:53, Patel, Anjana wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems getting the phishing detection to work.  I've
> noticed from the mailing list archives that a couple of other people
> also had the same problem but I didn't see a resolution.
>
> I've upgraded Mailscanner to the latest stable (4.49.7) but after
> several tests it appears that the phishing detection is still not
> working.  It had also failed to work in version 4.47.4.
>
> The maillog shows that the phishing whitelist is being read:
>
>  "Read 701 hostnames from the phishing whitelist"
>
> Here are the relevant paramaters:
>
> Dangerous Content Scanning = yes
> Find Phishing Fraud = yes
> Also Find Numeric Phishing = yes
> Highlight Phishing Fraud = yes
> Phishing Safe Sites File = %etc-dir%/phishing.safe.sites.conf
> Phishing Modify Subject = yes
> Phishing Subject Text = {FRAUD?}
>
>
> ./MailScanner --version
> Running on
> Linux mailgate-1 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27 EDT 2005  
> i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> This is Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
> This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.49.7
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.16    Archive::Zip
> 1.03    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.73    File::Basename
> 2.08    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.16    File::Temp
> 1.32    HTML::Entities
> 3.48    HTML::Parser
> 2.35    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.21    IO
> 1.10    IO::File
> 1.123   IO::Pipe
> 1.71    Mail::Header
> 3.07    MIME::Base64
> 5.419   MIME::Decoder
> 5.419   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.419   MIME::Head
> 5.419   MIME::Parser
> 3.07    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.419   MIME::Tools
> 0.11    Net::CIDR
> 1.08    POSIX
> 1.77    Socket
> 0.08    Sys::Syslog
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 1.809   DB_File
> 1.08    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.33    Digest::MD5
> 2.07    Digest::SHA1
> 0.44    Inline
> 0.17    Mail::ClamAV
> 3.001000        Mail::SpamAssassin
> missing Mail::SPF::Query
> missing Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.55    Net::DNS
> 0.31    Net::LDAP
> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> missing Sys::Hostname::Long
> 2.42    Test::Harness
> 0.47    Test::Simple
> 1.95    Text::Balanced
> 1.30    URI
>
>
> I don't think the settings for these are relevant but I have included
> them as extra information
>
> Allow IFrame Tags = yes
> Allow Form Tags = yes
> Allow Script Tags = yes
> Allow WebBugs = yes
> Allow Object Codebase Tags = yes
> Convert Dangerous HTML To Text = no
>
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Anjana
>
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