Comments on: Bayesian Spam Filters Make Phishers More Effective

By: Adam Stiles » Death of IE7 Phishing Filter Predicted

Adam Stiles » Death of IE7 Phishing Filter Predicted — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:53:29 +0000

[...] A little background. The browser is the last line of defense against phishing attacks, and therefore the most important. Spam filters can be bypassed (and bayesian filters actually help phishers get through to likely targets), and network filters are only as effective as their most recent blocklist update. Most network filters don’t understand javascript and are easily fooled. [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I agree. I use Mailwasher for spam filtering, which also includes bayesian filters, and the eBay/Paypal emails almost always get through. Luckily I know enough to figure out which are phishing, but I have web design clients who are always sending me copies of emails they get to see if they are real or not.

By: Narasimha

Narasimha — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,
Spam mails now define some unrelated message in text/plain part of the multipart of the message, may be so that the probability of the mail being recognised as spam gets reduced. Details at : http://narasimhagm.blogspot.com/2005/05/anatomy-of-phish.html