Phishing Script and Server Update & Future Plans

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Thu Jan 2 08:27:16 UTC 2025


Best wishes to everyone for 2025 :)

Thanks for the heads up. I got confused by the text on 
https://phishing.mailscanner.info/

"To use this service simply replace the respective cron files", just 
looked in /etc/cronXXX  and didn't look any further, my bad.


On Mon, 30 Dec 2024, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> On 12/30/24 04:38, mailscanner at barendse.to wrote:
>> Hi Shawn!
>> 
>> I have downloaded the script from the site below but there is no version 
>> number in it just this line
>> $Id: update_bad_safe_phishing_sites 3982 2017-08-22 09:00:39Z sysjkf $
>> 
>> Is it the correct file/version?
>
>
> Probably.
>
>
>> Also, I couldn't find any ms-update-phishing scripts on my installations, I 
>> placed the download in /etc/cron.daily
>
> The script is /usr/sbin/ms-update-phishing. It is run daily if enabled (which 
> it is by default) in /etc/MailScanner/defaults. See also the mailscanner 
> files in /etc/cron.daily/ and /etc/cron.hourly/.
>
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