It's not a bad idea and we'll look into it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 5:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry
<al...@sunbelt-software.com> wrote:
> And yes, we do test each definition that go out.  The problem with this one 
> was
> that the loop condition kicks in on a file of a certain size that is not in 
> our test bed.

  Would it be feasible to build some kind of governor into the
scan-engine, such that if a scan on a single file takes more than a
given amount of CPU time, the scan is assumed to have gone haywire,
and will be throttled or killed?  With suitable administrator alerts,
of course.

-- Ben

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