Antiphishing

[George Staikos]

On 22-Jun-07, at 2:23 AM, Josef Spillner wrote:

> On Thursday 21 June 2007 21:51:11 Tom Albers wrote:
>> I have a very simple antiphishing check already (for html mails  
>> compare the
>> visible link with the actual link, see screenie (yes, i know the  
>> typo)) and
>> I would like to extend it to something more professional.
>
> When I proposed this to security@ a while ago, I was told that you  
> would never
> be able to catch all cases with such a warning, and therefore it  
> doesn't make
> sense to implement something like this.
> What's the take now?

    What I suggest is something primarily based on an actively  
updated database, and that's a proven good approach.

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