[Mimedefang] BitDefender load average woes

[Michael Lang]

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com schrieb:
> I'm running BitDefender and ClamAV virus scanners through MIMEDefang.
>
> All of a sudden BitDefender started consuming a huge amount of CPU.  My load average shot up from under 1 to between 6 and 15.
>   

Hi Matthew,

can you 'reproduce' this behavior ?
I've seen an even more strange CPU/Memory consuming *feature* from 
Kaspersky with all currently Scanners
available which triggers your Machine into death. (5-10 Mails of 1.6MB 
size required)
This DOS wasnt taken seriously from Kaspersky neither other 'Security 
related' sites. Its a tiking boomb waiting there.

look for mails which cause such behavior, i will try the Kaspersky DOS 
on BitDefender as soon as i get time...
Kind regards
Michael Lang
> This happened on two servers simultaneously.
>
> I disabled BitDefender (delete $Features{"Virus:BDC"}) and the problems went away.
>
> Is anyone else having this problem?
>
> $ bdc --info
> BDC/Linux-Console v7.1 (build 2559) (i386) (Jul  6 2005 16:28:53)
> Copyright (C) 1996-2004 SOFTWIN SRL. All rights reserved.
>
> Engine signatures: 370654
> Scan engines: 13
> Archive engines: 39
> Unpack engines: 4
> Mail engines: 6
> System engines: 0
>
>