On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:11 -0500, Matt wrote: > Why can't Spamassassin do like a MD5 hash of any URL's in a message > and check them against a database?
Well, not MD5, but Whiplash type 8 signatures in Razor-2 are pretty similar. > I just think it would help catch > things like: geocities.com/spamer123/ or spamer123.tripod.com and etc. Again, Razor does a fair job at finding this, as long as people report. > It would also work for Tinyurl links and the like. Google recently came out with an anti-malware API that uses various MD5 hashes of URI's, but they have not yet licensed it for the world, and I only briefly thought about writing a plugin to call it. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com
