Re: Just when you thought Macafee stuff was safe!

["gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Saunders" <Tim.Saunders () aquilauk co uk>
> To: "gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>; <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:14 AM
> Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Just when you thought Macafee stuff was
safe!


> Or if your users have McAfee Virus scan wait for them to download a
> large compressed file, I find zips of oracle CDs from partner.oracle.com
> do nicely. Now watch McAfee crash as it tries to scan the contents of
> the zip and times out (I believe) thus leaving the machine nice and
> vulnerable since it doesn't auto restart. Any 300MB+ Zip, .tar.gz,
> .cpio.gz etc seems to work. Smaller files may also work depending on
> your machine.

Tim,

Gotta say I don't have that problem with Macafee stuff. I have 98 and XP
machines that have anywhere from 500meg files to, in 2 cases, 2gig
compressed files sitting on them and what you say has never happened even
once in a scheduled scan. I never allow any virus scanner to scan incoming
compressed files. I only allow them to scan when I save to disk from
attachment and that hasn't ever been a problem, either.

Greg.


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