Re: Anti Virus Mailscanners DOS

[Paul L Daniels <pldaniels () pldaniels com>]

>   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.

The problem lies within the fact that if vendor-'X' wants to deply a software solution onto a system, they'll have to 
assume/hope that the administrator has set these limits (or even installed them). Additionally, each distribution/OS 
has it's own methods.

        Whilst I guess this is a case of "Lets blame the AV makers", the issue is that they [AV software developers] 
decided to put in automatic, recursive uncompression tools into their own software. I know NOD32 actually left 
uncompression _out_ of their software due to this matter.

        There are OpenSource limits testers as well.

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