Malware Tried to Kill MailScanner

[Timothy J. Barhorst]

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott
Silva
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:40 AM
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Subject: Re: Malware Tried to Kill MailScanner

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.
> 
> 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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> 
>  
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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...

O.K. That makes sense.. Thanks.
How do I stop the hourly MailScanner message that is telling me this
happened?
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Archive:

Number of messages: 1
Tries	Message	Last Tried
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6	q9B6UwqI024249	Thu Oct 11 02:53:14 2012

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