Check for Viruses before uploading Amazon S3?

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How can I check files before uploading to Amazon S3,any tips?

Updated: It need for my web-site when users upload a file i want to check whether it's not infected. Is there any API which allows for check files programmatically ?

Thanks in advance!!!

Does the virus scanner on your machine check outgoing files? — Martijn Verburg, Jan 27 '11 at 15:27

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '11 at 15:25

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If you mean manually: try the online virusscanner at http://www.virustotal.com/ - It checks against a lot of antivirus programs for you.

answered Jan 27 '11 at 15:25

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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I think the best solution is @Joe's answer to a similar question for c#:

I would probably just make a system call to run an independent process to do the scan. There are a number of command-line AV engines out there from various vendors.

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answered Jan 27 '11 at 16:02

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just for google: one of the best command line free anti-viruses is clamAV multi platform so you can work with any OS, and use Any programming lang that can execute system applications, php, java, c# most high level programming langs – Barkermn01 Sep 24 '12 at 20:15

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 20 '16 at 05:57

You might want to check out https://scanii.com - it's an API for malware detection with pre-built clients in many languages that integrates with S3 directly (and without code changes if you are using AWS lambda) - I work on scanii so this is a bit of self promotion :)

As an added bonus, scanii can detect a lot more than just malware such as NSFW images and language.

Check for Viruses before uploading Amazon S3?

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