Would that include viruses that require action on the part of the
recipient? Included in password protected zips? What is the difference
between tricking a person into opening a password protected zip (which
is not dangerous in its delivered form) and tricking a user into
clicking a link
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Sent: 15. november 2004 17:54
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Subject: RE: [Clamav-users] ClamAV should not try to detect phishing
and
othersocial engineering attacks
Trog [EMAIL
Hanford, Seth wrote:
Would that include viruses that require action on the part of the
recipient? Included in password protected zips? What is the difference
between tricking a person into opening a password protected zip (which
is not dangerous in its delivered form) and tricking a user into
Diego d'Ambra wrote:
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Sent: 15. november 2004 17:54
To: ClamAV users ML
Subject: RE: [Clamav-users] ClamAV should not try to detect phishing
and
othersocial engineering attacks
Trog
since ClamAV reached v0.80, I am using it to scan and reject e-mail
messages. Today I noticed that ClamAV also detects phishing attacks.
Phishing is pure social engineering and poses no threat whatsoever in a
technical sense.
I'm certainly *very* happy that ClamAV team have added more phishing
Steve Basford wrote:
since ClamAV reached v0.80, I am using it to scan and reject e-mail
messages. Today I noticed that ClamAV also detects phishing attacks.
Phishing is pure social engineering and poses no threat whatsoever in a
technical sense.
I'm certainly *very* happy that ClamAV team
On Nov 14, 2004, at 9:26 AM, Steve Basford wrote:
since ClamAV reached v0.80, I am using it to scan and reject e-mail
messages. Today I noticed that ClamAV also detects phishing attacks.
Phishing is pure social engineering and poses no threat whatsoever in
a
technical sense.
I'm certainly
On Nov 14, 2004, at 9:32 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
Steve Basford wrote:
since ClamAV reached v0.80, I am using it to scan and reject e-mail
messages. Today I noticed that ClamAV also detects phishing attacks.
Phishing is pure social engineering and poses no threat whatsoever
in a
technical sense.
Joe Maimon wrote:
I'm certainly *very* happy that ClamAV team have added more phishing
detections (thanks Trog et all).
Yes, you're correct it's social engineering but it doesn't stop
users clicking on the links
and downloading the keylogging trojan, from the remote site that the
phish email
