Malware Tried to Kill MailScanner

[Scott Silva]

on 10/11/2012 7:06 AM Timothy J. Barhorst spake the following:
> Our Centos 5 - MailScanner 4.84.5-2 server was attacked last night with a
> message that tried to kill MailScanner.
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> The message contained a .zip file with HTML.Phishing.Pay-6 infection.
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> Should this have happened? Is this a bug in MailScanner? Why would MailScanner
> crash?
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This happens when the processing takes too long to complete. Sometimes a
deeply nested zip file, or other system processing. Usually the message gets
quarantined after the processing attempts have reached the limit...