Re: Anti Virus Mailscanners DOS

From: Jedi/Sector One (j@pureftpd.org)
Date: 02/26/02 

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:25:25 +0100
From: Jedi/Sector One <j@pureftpd.org>
To: "Eduardo R. Maciel" <maciel@inetd.com.br>

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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