bugtraq - Re: Virus scan attack

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:26:29 -0300
From: "Joao B. Diehl" <diehl@....inpe.br>
To: Nate Nord <natenord@...imus.com>
Cc: visitbipin@...mail.com, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Virus scan attack


We had this same problem with the DAT 4367. Returning to
DAT 4366 it worked again.


Nate Nord wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this come through their mail portal.
> Something has caused our McAfee Webshield SMTP to seriously eat processor
> time... to the point that it will no longer forward scanned mail.  I've had
> to temporarily bypass it until I figure out what it's choking on.  I saw
> several other posts that said this sent processors into some kind of loop
> and this is exactly what appears to be happening with our portal.
> 
> 
> ] -----Original Message-----
> ] From: Bipin Gautam [mailto:visitbipin@...mail.com] 
> ] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:33 AM
> ] To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
> ] Subject: Antivirus/Trojan/Spyware scanners DoS!
> ] 
> ] 
> ] 
> ] Hello everybody,
> ] 
> ] 
> ] 
> ] I doubt how many Antivirus/Trojan/Spyware scanners will choak 
> ] to death while having a "manual scan" of this file. Please go 
> ] ahead and give it a try.
> ] 
> ] 
> ] 
> ] http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/SERVER_dwn.zip
> ] 
> ] 
> ] 
> ] I was woundering, what would be the results if such file gets 
> ] stucked in an "AV gateway" (O;
> ] 
> ] 
> ] 
> ] please, report your findings..... I have already been 
> ] bombarded with strange reports. 
> ] 
> ] 
> ] 
> ] regards,
> ] 
> ] 
> ] 
> ] Bipin Gautam
> ] 
> ] http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/