On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:53, Cami wrote: > Nigel Horne wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:42, Cami wrote: > > > >>Nigel Horne wrote: > >> > >>>The limit is fixed to 50K at the moment. It would be useful to be able > >>>to use the StreamMaxLength directive from clamd.conf, but values > >>>in that file are not made available to that layer of the software by the > >>>higher levels. > >> > >>Is there any way to specify what URLs ClamAV will download > >>based on the extension? (IE, only download+scan zip|exe|pif > >>etc which are found in the url inside a mail) > > > > No. And there are no plans for that, since the file would be endless. > > We've seen infestations in just about all file types. > > Indeed, that makes sense. Is there perhaps another solution > to cater for the possibility of a DOS attack on the server?
What DOS attack? > I was wondering what the implications are of mails that > included a large number of external links with gif|jpg etc. > What about limiting the amount of URLs that will be followed > per mail or would this be a waste of time? There is already a hard-coded limit of 5. It is hard-coded for the same reason that the file size is limited (no access to configuration data at that level). > Cami -Nigel _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
