Or something that ensures that no more than 75% of remaining CPU will ever be consumed by the AV app and its processes...
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry > <[email protected]> wrote: > > And yes, we do test each definition that go out. The problem with this > one was > > that the loop condition kicks in on a file of a certain size that is not > in our test bed. > > Would it be feasible to build some kind of governor into the > scan-engine, such that if a scan on a single file takes more than a > given amount of CPU time, the scan is assumed to have gone haywire, > and will be throttled or killed? With suitable administrator alerts, > of course. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
