RE: Antivirus/Trojan/Spyware scanners DoS!

[Ian Bergman <Ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SAV Corp 9.0 found six instances of eicar_test in 28 seconds of total
runtime on a test file server of no exceptional speed.

No real performance hit there.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bipin Gautam [mailto:visitbipin@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 3:33 AM
To: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Antivirus/Trojan/Spyware scanners DoS!



Hello everybody,



I doubt how many Antivirus/Trojan/Spyware scanners will choak to death while
having a "manual scan" of this file. Please go ahead and give it a try.



http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/SERVER_dwn.zip



I was woundering, what would be the results if such file gets stucked in an
"AV gateway" (O;



please, report your findings..... I have already been bombarded with strange
reports. 



regards,



Bipin Gautam

http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/