Re: Decompression Bombs
"Myron Davis" <myrond@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> Theoretically one could modify a worm to send random zip'd files of zeros
> along the way to different hosts to really kill the destinations
> computers.
>
Is this all just back to fail open/fail closed? I have a file that
will cause XXX virus scanner to crash. Does the SMTP agent view that
as a reason to reject the email or does it pass it through?
If it does a temporary rejection message because of some internal
failure, the infection rateof these messages becomes very low. Not
sure how virus scanners + SMTP servers interact with regards to
tradition SMTP errors.
It would be an effective anti-cleanup method though.
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Chris Green <cmg@xxxxxxx>
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