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The Friends list enhanced to reduce spoofing

Thursday 28th of May 2009 9:26am

What I an currently doing to deal with friends' addresses being forged is very simple, easy to implement and over the last year or so has never been fooled. I create a filter for each friend's address when they initially have a spoofing problem and then remove them from the easily fooled friends list.

The filter is dead simple, I just copy the friends From: line from one of their headers into the filter so that not only is the address checked but the user identification they have entered into their mail client is checked. For friends that send mail from a few different programs or places I may have to enter each on its own line.

My From line data looks like this: "Stanley P. Miller"

Firetrust could add the full line checking to the existing tool with very little programming effort.

Stan_qaz

Saturday 30th of May 2009 7:45am

See this post for an example of the problem.

http://forum.firetrust.com/viewtopic.php?p=8990#p8990

Gast

Sunday 12th of July 2009 3:49am

I couldn't agree more Stan!! Another example that brought me here to make the same suggestion you've offered a couple of months ago: http://forum.firetrust.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1876

Ikester

Sunday 12th of July 2009 3:52am

Whoops! That was me not logged in. Perhaps I should make the suggestion that comments can only be made if logged in.....

AlphaCentauri

Sunday 19th of July 2009 2:24pm

People may have different names added to the from line when they send from different email clients or different computers, so while it would work well for your own email (where you are sure to make them consistent), it might be unreliable for mail you get from other people.

Stan_qaz

Tuesday 15th of September 2009 8:48am

You do need to add in an entry for each differently configured e-mail client that they send mail on that account from if the sender has them set up to send different info.

I have to do that on two of the addresses in my list, they have their laptop and desktop set slightly differently but having to add an additional entry is a rare thing compared to the number of spoofs I was getting that passed the friends list check.

Pamclark

Tuesday 8th of December 2009 8:04am

It's tricky when friends change their email addresses or have more than one.

Stan_qaz

Sunday 28th of March 2010 12:38pm

It is simple to edit the filter to account for changes, not much more effort than the easily fooled Friends list.

Adding multiple addresses for someone is only a couple clicks and a copy/paste operation.

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