On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:55:14PM CET, Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com> said: > Moray Henderson (ICT) wrote: > >> From: Török Edwin [mailto:edwinto...@gmail.com] > >>>> Try using <a href="..."> for the URL. > >>>> > >>> Is that a requirement? If so we should get the spammers on board because > >> some of > >>> them may not know this :). > >> No, there are more places from where URLs can be extracted, but "<a > >> href" is one that must work. > > > > With modern email clients "helpfully" presenting text that looks like a URL > > as a real URL at the client end, SafeBrowsing really ought to check the > > plain text, not just within html tags. http://pastebin.com/m13232c54 may > > be just plain text when transmitted and scanned, but it's an "<a href>" by > > the time I read it: underlined, blue, and turns my cursor to a pointy > > finger with a pop-up box saying "Click to follow link". > > I don't imagine the world's premier spammers are sitting at their laptop in > their shorts sending out thousands of spams with Thunderbird. There are > purpose > built products for this and can format the mail any way they wish. >
What was said is that many MUA, *receiving* a mail with an URL in the text will automatically create a link from it. It has bothing to do with the sending software. -- Erwan _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
