Re: Virus scan attack
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:26:29AM -0300, Joao B. Diehl wrote:
> 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.
Witnessed on a linux and solaris installs. In both cases, reverting to the
previous dat archive restored function.
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