-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Mike Sphar Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:37 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Virus Scanning
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I'm not sure what solution there is to a deeply embedded virus. Most systems (server or desktop) simply can't handle the performance hit of doing deep scans of every zip file.
Especially files like this one: http://www.consume.org/~jshare/42.zip
You may have seen it before, it's a nested set of zip files that expands out to petabytes of data. I think it's 5-deep nested (16 files per nest), with the final "leaf" being 4gigs of 0s (or null, or something).
I think this is kind of a canonical file, however, so AV vendors may deal with it specifically.
For fun, you can mail it to your buddies that /do/ deep scan zip files. (With friends like these.... :)
Jordan