DOS attach with zip of death?

[Julian Field]

At 12:42 22/11/2002, you wrote:
>An article on the 'zip of death':
>
>http://www.mxsciences.com/artman/publish/article_2.shtml

I like the quote

>Paul Rogers, a network security analyst at MIS, has carried out tests that
>show that the exploit can be used to crash systems running MAILsweeper
>filtering software from Content Technologies and antivirus products from
>F-Secure.

MailScanner has been protected against dos attacks for a long time.
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