On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Julio Canto wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Virus-scanning anything bigger than 1-2Mb makes little sense.
ANything
as big as 20Mb, I would just skip without further consideration.
Nowadays it is not unusual to find malware samples exceeding that
2MB size limit.
It's certainly possible for a large Word/Excel/whatever file to be
infected, but they aren't very common. Out of the 400+ viruses
quarantined over the past week or so on one of my mail servers, the
average size was 11KB, and the largest malicious email was 116KB (it
contained Worm.Bagle.pwd-eml).
--
-Chuck
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