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Virus scan attack Jun 17 2004 10:08PM
Nate Nord (natenord maximus com) (1 replies)

Re: Virus scan attack Jun 19 2004 02:26PM
Joao B. Diehl (diehl dpi inpe br) (3 replies)

Re: Virus scan attack Jun 22 2004 12:14PM
Victor Julien (victor nk nl)

Re: Virus scan attack Jun 22 2004 07:34AM
Vincent Archer (var deny-all com)

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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mcafee dat corrupted? (was: Virus scan attack) Jun 22 2004 05:17AM
Diyan Christian (diyan mitra net id)