Török Edvin wrote:
> On 9/16/06, Ian Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I built this (probably wrongly ;-)
> Tell me how you called ./configure and we'll see if its correct.

I just did the cvs checkout a bit too early - so was missing the
--phish-scan-alldomains option.
CVS update has sorted that out. Seems OK for the moment.

>> the other day, in order to test it on
>> our repository of phishing emails (http://phishery.internetdefence.net)
>> - are there any recommended signatures for use
> Not (yet).

> Neither the domainlist (daily.pdb), or the whitelist (daily.wdb) is
> "required".
> If they are not found, they are simply not used. However you will
> certainly want a .pdb file, otherwise you'll have many false
> positives!

I'll create this by running against known phish, known spam, known ham.

> I've updated the documentation in the phishsigs_howto with some
> examples on how to create those databases.

Excellent, I'll do another cvs update.
>
> First you should start with a test using --phish-scan-alldomains, and
> see how many phishes it catches.


> Then you need to create a list of
> domains/urls (ebay,paypal,...) that are frequently target of phishing.
I have this - been collecting them for a while..
> Otherwise you'll have many false positives. Then test again with this
> database you created,...
>
> I see that you already have a list of phishing sites, if you have the
> corresponding url they claim to link to, you can generate a .pdb file
> out of that [it is recommended to do it manually, see below].
>
> At first you might want to test it with some common sites, like
> ebay/paypal, and don't care about the displayedURL in the .pdb file
> (use .+ to match all displayedURLs).
> Or you might just create a list of hosts in it (using H), listing
> ebay,paypal,...
>
> P.S.:please update from cvs, there have been some bugfixes.

Will do.

I'll come back with some results if that will be useful.

Cheers,

Ian.
>
> Best regards,
> Edwin
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