phishing not being detected

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Mon Apr 23 16:04:53 IST 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:53, Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín wrote:
> Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the	Problem
> <root <at> doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:36:31PM +0000, Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín wrote:
> > > Hi, i've found a message not being detected as phishing by MailScanner. I
> > > uploaded it to http://www.divshare.com/download/464926-a8a.
> > > 
> > > I sent it to ClamAV and it's now beeing detected as Email.Phishing.RB-653, 
> but I
> > > think there's something MailScanner is not catching and should be fixed.
> > >
> > 
> > Are you using Clamav and/or clamavmodule?
> > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> 
> I'm using clamavmodule. My ClamAV database:
> 
> main.cvd is up to date (version: 43, sigs: 104500, f-level: 14, builder: sven)
> daily.inc is up to date (version: 3150, sigs: 6694, f-level: 15, builder: 
> ccordes)
> 
> The phishing is supposed to be detected by ClamAV daily update 3140 as
> Email.Phishing.RB-653 (ref:
> http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20070420.184222.fc0538d6.en.html), but it's not
> being detected by ClamAV through MailScanner nor by MailScanner's own phishing
> protection nor by manually using ClamAV.
> 
> I'll try to contact ClamAV, but i'm posting this here so maybe someone can
> figure out why it's not being detected by MailScanner phishing protection, so
> next version gets better.

Are you running the latest clamav 0.90.2. Earlier 0.90 versions did not
detect phishing attacks when used with clamavmodule.



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