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Bug 316796 - Visually highlight phishing links
Visually highlight phishing links
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256160
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.4.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-20 16:28 UTC by Evan Prodromou
Modified: 2005-09-21 13:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Evan Prodromou 2005-09-20 16:28:25 UTC
Phishing (see http://www.antiphishing.org/ for info) uses a very simple
mechanism to trick users into clicking through to an evil Web site. They use
HTML mail with links like this:

  <a href="http://evil.example.com/">http://trusted.example.net/</a>

That is, they use a trusted (or trusted-looking) URL as the text of a link, but
the href is actually for an evil, untrusted link.

It is an automatable task to highlight in some visual way -- or even give an
"are you sure?" dialog message -- links in HTML messages that have text that a)
looks like an URL and b) is not equal URL-wise to the HREF value. I believe
there is already code in Evolution to do these two matches.

Although the traditional Evolution user is pretty sophisticated and net-savvy,
this would still be helpful for less sophisticated email novices.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2005-09-21 13:25:16 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256160 ***