Comments on: Email Phishing Problem Solved http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/10/20/spam_aabihbidje_ba/ Spam, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Phishing & Viruses from the Front Lines. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:04:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Editor http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/10/20/spam_aabihbidje_ba/#comment-98 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:10:02 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/10/20/spam_aabihbidje_ba/#comment-98 Hopefully, you noticed that the article is targeted at SENDERS, as opposed to RECEIVERS.<br> <br> Plain text looking HTML that has no clickable links is not clickable; thus, non-phishable by click. <br> <br> Your product is one of hundreds, if not thousands that exposes and/or disables INCOMING message links. Check with any of our advertisers. Hopefully, you noticed that the article is targeted at SENDERS, as opposed to RECEIVERS.

Plain text looking HTML that has no clickable links is not clickable; thus, non-phishable by click.

Your product is one of hundreds, if not thousands that exposes and/or disables INCOMING message links. Check with any of our advertisers.

]]> by: Julian Field http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/10/20/spam_aabihbidje_ba/#comment-97 Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:22:46 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/10/20/spam_aabihbidje_ba/#comment-97 But you can easily craft an HTML email message that looks exactly like a plain text message to most of the popular email apps. So only using plain text doesn't help at all.<br> <br> What you need is a decent phishing detector that optionally (1) highlights the link with a clear warning message, (2) adds a tag to the subject line and (3) disables the link altogether so there is nothing to click on.<br> <br> MailScanner does all this very nicely. But you can easily craft an HTML email message that looks exactly like a plain text message to most of the popular email apps. So only using plain text doesn’t help at all.

What you need is a decent phishing detector that optionally (1) highlights the link with a clear warning message, (2) adds a tag to the subject line and (3) disables the link altogether so there is nothing to click on.

MailScanner does all this very nicely.

]]> by: TimW http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/10/20/spam_aabihbidje_ba/#comment-96 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:24:54 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2005/10/20/spam_aabihbidje_ba/#comment-96 Our network security guy has the ultimate solution. He removes all that junk from incoming email before we ever see it. I'm not sure what he uses but, by the time he gets done, there's not much left. He won't let us open attachments either. Our network security guy has the ultimate solution. He removes all that junk from incoming email before we ever see it. I’m not sure what he uses but, by the time he gets done, there’s not much left. He won’t let us open attachments either.

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