> I am trying to filter "spam"/fake emails populating my distribution
> lists, I currently do not have a spam filter. I was wondering if a spam
> filter would do justice or do I have to continue manually filtering fake
> emails. The emails look very legit however some of the wordage is off
> and that is how I recognize them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
clam av does a decent job of spotting phish emails (as well as virus
attchments). sanesecurity also has clamav sigs based on the phishtank
phishing emails:
http://sanesecurity.co.uk/clamav/usage.htm
hope this helps you selectively deal with phishing emails on your lists.
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http://monkey.org/~jose/ http://monkey.org/~jose/secnews.html
http://www.wormblog.com/
> I am trying to filter "spam"/fake emails populating my distribution
> lists, I currently do not have a spam filter. I was wondering if a spam
> filter would do justice or do I have to continue manually filtering fake
> emails. The emails look very legit however some of the wordage is off
> and that is how I recognize them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
clam av does a decent job of spotting phish emails (as well as virus
attchments). sanesecurity also has clamav sigs based on the phishtank
phishing emails:
http://sanesecurity.co.uk/clamav/usage.htm
hope this helps you selectively deal with phishing emails on your lists.
________
jose nazario, ph.d. jose (at) monkey (dot) org [email concealed]
http://monkey.org/~jose/ http://monkey.org/~jose/secnews.html
http://www.wormblog.com/
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