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Phishing in Thunderbird 1.5Phishing in Thunderbird 1.5Posted Oct 13, 2005 15:29 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)Parent article: Mail filtering in Thunderbird 1.5
I think that the phishing algorithm should be improved.. but it will not stop people from being lulled into getting hooked. The better the algorithm the more likely they will think that something bad is legit.. and the only way to fix this is user training.
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Phishing in Thunderbird 1.5 Posted Oct 13, 2005 17:20 UTC (Thu) by gswoods (guest, #37) [Link] I agree on the user training part; there is unfortunately no substitute.
I just wanted to add that ClamAV, which is actually anti-virus software, finds a lot of phishing mail. I presume it is using a virus-scanner-like approach of just looking for certain byte signatures, but on my system at work (with about 1200 users), it catches thousands of these per day with no false positives. In my personal mail stream, more messages classified as "viruses or other malware" are phishing scams than actual viruses.
Since ClamAV is run before SpamAssassin, I cannot say how many of these would have also been flagged by SpamAssassin.
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