I've set the limit of scanned mails to 2MB and it helped a little. I've
figured I could tweak my postfix to take a bit longer to allow ClamAV to
pass the mails through:
lmtp_xforward_timeout = 1000s
smtp_xforward_timeout = 1000s
smtpd_timeout = 1000s
I'll try this combo for a while, to see if it
> >> Virus-scanning anything bigger than 1-2Mb makes little sense.
> >> ANything
> >> as big as 20Mb, I would just skip without further consideration.
> >
> > Nowadays it is not unusual to find malware samples exceeding that
> > 2MB size limit.
>
> It's certainly possible for a large Word/Exc
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > It's certainly possible for a large Word/Excel/whatever file to be
> > infected, but they aren't very common. Out of the 400+ viruses
> > quarantined over the past week or so on one of my mail servers, the
> > average size was 11KB, and the largest malicious email was
I have to agree, in the technical sense that if you allow larger
attachments it really starts to sap the resources. I originally allowed
400MB attachment scanning and it would really load down the server at
times. I set it back to default setting of 10MB and resource usage was
much better. I fi
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> It's certainly possible for a large Word/Excel/whatever file to be
> infected, but they aren't very common. Out of the 400+ viruses
> quarantined over the past week or so on one of my mail servers, the
> average size was 11KB, and the largest malicious email was 116KB (it
> c
On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Julio Canto wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Virus-scanning anything bigger than 1-2Mb makes little sense.
ANything
as big as 20Mb, I would just skip without further consideration.
Nowadays it is not unusual to find malware samples exceeding that
2MB size limit.
It
Per Jessen wrote:
> Virus-scanning anything bigger than 1-2Mb makes little sense. ANything
> as big as 20Mb, I would just skip without further consideration.
>
Nowadays it is not unusual to find malware samples exceeding that 2MB
size limit.
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Regards,
Julio Canto | VirusTotal.com | Hispase
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey all;
> I'm running ClamAV 0.90.1 on FreeBSD 6.2.
> In front of this server I have 3 other, which gather traffic and run
> it through my ClamAV-server.
>
> Everything is running smothly, except some mails, that are large.
> Right now I have 4 mails on one of the serv
On Mar 29, 2007, at 7:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running ClamAV 0.90.1 on FreeBSD 6.2.
In front of this server I have 3 other, which gather traffic and
run it
through my ClamAV-server.
Everything is running smothly, except some mails, that are large.
Right
now I have 4 mails on one
Hey all;
I'm running ClamAV 0.90.1 on FreeBSD 6.2.
In front of this server I have 3 other, which gather traffic and run it
through my ClamAV-server.
Everything is running smothly, except some mails, that are large. Right
now I have 4 mails on one of the servers that vary in size from 20MB to 60
MB
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