diff --git a/libclamav/clamav.h b/libclamav/clamav.h
index 5b2d70ad2..141660f66 100644
--- a/libclamav/clamav.h
+++ b/libclamav/clamav.h
@@ -139,16 +139,17 @@ struct cl_engine {
 };
 
 struct cl_limits {
+    unsigned long int maxscansize;  /* during the scanning of archives this size
+				     * will never be exceeded
+				     */
+    unsigned long int maxfilesize;  /* compressed files will only be decompressed
+				     * and scanned up to this size
+				     */
     unsigned int maxreclevel;	    /* maximum recursion level for archives */
     unsigned int maxfiles;	    /* maximum number of files to be scanned
 				     * within a single archive
 				     */
-    unsigned int maxmailrec;	    /* maximum recursion level for mail files */
-    unsigned int maxratio;	    /* maximum compression ratio */
     unsigned short archivememlim;   /* limit memory usage for some unpackers */
-    unsigned long int maxfilesize;  /* compressed files larger than this limit
-				     * will not be scanned
-				     */
 };
 
 struct cl_stat {
diff --git a/libclamav/nsis/nulsft.c b/libclamav/nsis/nulsft.c
index 7a659c547..ad84a0a2d 100644
--- a/libclamav/nsis/nulsft.c
+++ b/libclamav/nsis/nulsft.c
@@ -517,10 +517,6 @@ int cli_scannulsft(int desc, cli_ctx *ctx, off_t offset) {
 	struct nsis_st nsist;
 
     cli_dbgmsg("in scannulsft()\n");
-    if(ctx->limits && ctx->limits->maxreclevel && ctx->arec >= ctx->limits->maxreclevel) {
-        cli_dbgmsg("Archive recursion limit exceeded (arec == %u).\n", ctx->arec+1);
-	return CL_EMAXREC;
-    }
 
     memset(&nsist, 0, sizeof(struct nsis_st));
 
@@ -536,8 +532,6 @@ int cli_scannulsft(int desc, cli_ctx *ctx, off_t offset) {
 
     if(cli_leavetemps_flag) cli_dbgmsg("NSIS: Extracting files to %s\n", nsist.dir);
 
-    ctx->arec++;
-
     do {
         ret = cli_nsis_unpack(&nsist, ctx);
 	if(ret != CL_SUCCESS) {
@@ -572,7 +566,6 @@ int cli_scannulsft(int desc, cli_ctx *ctx, off_t offset) {
 
     free(nsist.dir);
 
-    ctx->arec--;    
     return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/libclamav/others.h b/libclamav/others.h
index e3347e957..5fbd26ce4 100644
--- a/libclamav/others.h
+++ b/libclamav/others.h
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ typedef struct {
     const struct cli_matcher *root;
     const struct cl_engine *engine;
     const struct cl_limits *limits;
+    unsigned long scansize;
     unsigned int options;
     unsigned int arec;
-    unsigned int mrec;
     unsigned int found_possibly_unwanted;
     struct cli_dconf *dconf;
 } cli_ctx;