Hello Marc and *, Am 2010-02-13 09:33:38, schrieb Marc Powell: > Why do you think Mailscanner protects you from the following -- <snip> Sorry Marc, but such messages are already catched by spamassassin... > The answer is that Mailscanner does *nothing* to protect against this > form of phishing (spear phishing). It is widely used because it can be > highly effective against gullible users and undetected by base > configurations of Mailscanner and spam assassin. If you think that > Mailscanner is detecting or blocking this then you're going to > continue to have this happen. Mailscanner's phishing detection is for > a completely different type of phishing. > > I use Mailscanner, SA, Squirrelmail (and other software) to host > 40,000+ accounts (teachers). I see this kind of attack all the time. > You can do things with SA to look for keywords in the body and flag or > delete as appropriate but some will get through and only by educating > your users can you really prevent it. This might also be helpful - > http://www.scamnailer.info/ Any good provider have already implemented rules to catch such messages. I am ISP too, and my customers expect, that I catch this crap... Messages marked as spam by users go to a special account for (if neccesary) manual stuff and analysis. I have to adapt spamassassin rules daily and curently there are arround 11 million spams trashed per day Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### <http://www.tamay-dogan.net/> Michelle Konzack <http://www.can4linux.org/> Apt. 917 <http://www.flexray4linux.org/> 50, rue de Soultz Jabber linux4michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 67100 Strabourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) Tel. DE: +49 177 9351947 ICQ #328449886 Tel. FR: +33 6 61925193
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