Phishing in Thunderbird 1.5

Phishing in Thunderbird 1.5

Posted Oct 13, 2005 17:20 UTC (Thu) by gswoods (guest, #37)
In reply to: Phishing in Thunderbird 1.5 by smoogen
Parent article: Mail filtering in Thunderbird 1.5

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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