Phishing Update Service

[Randal, Phil]

Hi Jerry,

If and when I get the time, I shall.

But in the meantime people might get upset finding that their fine-tuned rules have been clobbered.

Personally, I wish MailScanner had been designed to have system and 'local' phishing files, with the latter taking precedence, so that the system files are just plain downloads.

Retrofitting that concept would probably break things for everyone, so we're stuck with a compromise.

Cheers,

Phil


From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
Sent: 23 June 2014 10:59
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Phishing Update Service

Phil,

If you would like to contribute a better update script, I will be happy to add it. You could also just update your current script to point to the one at phishing.mailborder.com<http://phishing.mailborder.com>. Alternatively, you can continue to use the current MailScanner default.

In short, I am the only one actively contributing to the MailScanner project with time, resources, and funds at the moment. If you have a better solution, give it to me or send it to this list. Simply telling me "it sucks" doesn't really accomplish or improve anything.

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com<http://www.mailborder.com>



On Jun 23, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Randal, Phil <phil.randal at hoopleltd.co.uk<mailto:phil.randal at hoopleltd.co.uk>> wrote:


Hi Jerry,

You need to look at the original /usr/sbin/update_phishing_sites and /usr/sbin/update_bad_phishing_sites.

The retrieved content was merged with the user's file, which may have been edited to add locally whitelisted / blacklisted URLs.

Your script just clobbers the files.

Bad move!

Phil



From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
Sent: 21 June 2014 02:23
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Phishing Update Service

Ok, I went a little further. There are now updated "safe" and "bad" phishing sites once per day. Read more and get the scripts here if you want them.

http://phishing.mailborder.com/



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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com<http://www.mailborder.com/>



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