Re: FW: Antivirus scanner DoS with zip archives

From: Michel Arboi (arboiat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 14:30:38 PDT

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    --- Dale Martin <dalemartinat_private> a écrit : 
    > Tested 42.zip with Trend Micro Viruswall on a poor old Pentium 100
    > with 400Meg drive and 130Meg free and worked just fine - no crash -
    > must admit it took about 30 minutes to process it though.  (VET from
    > CA v10.2.5 didnt like it all)
    
    IMHO, it did not process the whole archive in 30 min. That's
    impossible.
    I suspect that it died silently after it ran out of memory on the first
    file deep inside the archives.
    
    
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