On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:32 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: > > > > And how many Phishing false positives have you had exactly? > > All of them. ;) > > Seriously, that's an unfair question. When you're deleting people's > email, how would they find out if there was a false positive? With > spam, it's standard practice to review a junk-mail box for false > positives regularly. Viruses are treated differently; nobody checks > them for false positives. That's why this is such a concern for those > of us who depend on email. >
You describe SPAM, not Phishing. And thats the difference you are missing. I've written a complete SPAM tagging application from scratch, I know the issues involved. Perhaps you should check your viruses for false positives. Ever had a Parite virus deleted? With some commercial scanners, there's probably about a 20% chance it's a false positive. -trog
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