Re: Anti Virus Mailscanners DOS

[Jedi/Sector One <j () pureftpd org>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:29:02PM -0300, Eduardo R. Maciel wrote:
> An antivirus mailscanner should check the filesizes inside a compressed file like .tar.gz, .zip, .bz2, etc, BEFORE 
> open the file for scanning.
> Sending several mails with these compressed files may let a machine out of memory or disk space. 
>       The mailscanner should check the filesizes inside a compressed file.

  A better approach is just to set proper process limits before spawning the
antivirus checker.

  You can achieve this with softlimits (from daemontools), or with a simple
script using standard shell facilities (limit/ulimit) .

  It doesn't require any change to your antivirus software.

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