Questions tagged [antivirus-integration]

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How do you virus scan a file being uploaded to your java webapp as it streams?

Basically, I want to virus scan files as they are uploaded (before writing them to disk) to a web app. In particular, I'd like to integrate with "McAfee VirusScan Enterprise" (latest version). From a design and maintenance perspective, would it…
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Checking uploaded files for viruses

I have some application. User can upload files, i save it on disk, and return it, when user want. I need implement some protection for uploaded files for viruses. I found 3 solutions for this problem: Use online antiviruses Install antivirus on my…
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How can I tell the "windows security center" that I'm an "antivirus"?

we are developing an anti-virus, I'm trying to find out how can we tell the operating system -windows XP in this case- that our software is an anti-virus. I want that the OS recognize our software as an anti-virus and the security center list it.
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Antivirus API for scanning before saving to file server

Is their an API for Kaspersky to scan for virus when uploading files to an file server from an ASP .NET Application.My requirement is that before the saving is done the file must be checked for virus.Is it possible to scan for virus before saving…
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Execute antivirus program programmatically using delphi

I wrote an small app to transfer files using the indy components, now i want start the antivirus program when the transfer is finished to check the files. how i can execute the antivirus program installed in the client side, when the download…
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Detecting anti-virus on Windows with WMI - which namespace?

I am coding a antivirus detection code and the WMI namespace differs in some cases as Win7 supports "\root\SecurityCenter2" and WinXP uses "\root\SecurityCenter". Does anyone have a definitive list of namespaces Windows uses for anti-virus…
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Scanning uploaded files with Antivirus SDK

I'm creating a website with fileuploading functionality. I need to antivirus scan the files being uploaded. I'm currently running MS Forefront, but I don't know if it has builtin functionality for this purpose? Alternatively I need an AV SDK, but I…
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LibClamAV Error:cl_load:No such file or directory: C:\Users\my-pc\Desktop\clamav-win32-clamav-0.99\contrib\msvc\Debug\Win32\db

I downloaded Clamwin source code and loaded the clamwin solution to visual studio(2010 professional) and successfully built all project without any errors. After clicking start without debugging(seting clamscan project as startup ) I'am getting…
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How does Firefox Version 3 invoke the anti-virus feature on Windows to scan a download?

Another question on StackOverflow is asking how this is done, but the general question of how Firefox manages this is even more useful, and would answer that question also. Without reading all the source code to firefox (I haven't time) - is anyone…
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How a website like Virus Total does work?

Websites like VirusTotal and Jotti provide online malware multi-scan service. I would ask about how can I code an interface for any of Kaspersky,AVG,Symantic..etc in order to implement an online service such as Virustotal? Can I find any support…
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Wait until Symantec End Point DoScan.exe finishes scanning the file

I am developing an application which uses file upload. My client uses Symantec End Point Protection on Windows Server. So, I am using a sample code to check whether a file being uploaded on server. I am calling SEP using command line. Sample Code: …
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How to check for virus signatures on uploaded files in ruby on server side before processing?

There is a upload feature on the site. I want to check if the file is infected before it gets processed. Is there any way to achieve this using a gem or having some inhouse code for it?
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Free server side anti virus / security / trojan protection for file uploads?

I am allowing users to upload photos like photo albums, and also attach files (documents for now) as mail attachments. So i assume I need some anti virus/security tool in place to scan the files first in case people upload infected stuff. So two…
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Perl, ClamAV, scan a stream for viruses

I have a perl app. I need to scan some files for viruses . I can use the ClamAV and the module File::Scan::ClamAV . It works if i need to scan some file stored on disk or if a file is loaded to a memory (to some variable). But my app doesn't have…
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.net API to the local virus scan engine?

I've searched now for more hours about information on how to scan files in .NET (C#) with the local Windows registered virus scan engine. Found e.g. this (.NET virus scanning API) and some older other examples... It seems that some virus scan…
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