Phishing Server Change

Shawn Iverson iversons at rushville.k12.in.us
Fri Aug 4 14:37:45 UTC 2017


Jerry,

I'll test.  I am already testing ms-init, packaging.....etc...

On Aug 3, 2017 1:03 AM, "Jerry Benton" <jerry.benton at mailborder.com> wrote:

> Please use the updated version of the phishing updates script from
> http://phishing.mailscanner.info/
>
> I am trying to reduce bandwidth and the new script uses curl as the primary
> method, which support gzip by default. The fallback is wget, which uses
> more
> bandwidth. Most servers are still using the older update script version
> that
> uses wget as the primary method. (You cannot just tell wget to use gzip
> because the downloaded file ends up staying compressed and thus useless.)
>
> The phishing server does about 550GB per month in transfers. Using wget the
> bad phishing file transfer size is 280081 and with curl it is 119027. That
> is almost half the transfer size. I would like to try to get that 550GB
> number down. I don't want to have to pull out the big stick and start
> blocking wget user agents, so please help me out here.
>
> As a side note, there is no point in updating the phishing files every
> hour.
> They get updated six times per day. If you are running every hour, please
> change your cron settings to something less taxing. Again, I don't want to
> pull out the big stick and start throttling IPs that are updating too
> often.
>
>
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