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Upload files to database virus check

As part of our requirements, we need to upload some files to database. Is there any way we can do virus scan on those files before saving them to database.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1899

Answers (2)

Piskvor left the building
Piskvor left the building

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Your server is probably not at risk from viruses; however, you probably want to check the files anyway - it is entirely possible for a Windows-using client to upload an infected file, and another Windows-using client to download it and infect themselves. By checking for malware at the server, you could stop it from spreading - so the net result is positive, even if the malware doesn't attack your server directly.

If your server runs something UN*X-ish (Linux, BSD, ...), you may want to look at ClamAV, and its Java bindings, clamavj: these provide various scan capabilities (e.g. on-demand or automatic in a given location), even for different-platform malware (e.g. you can check for Windows viruses, even though your server runs Linux).

Upvotes: 1

Jesse Webb
Jesse Webb

Reputation: 45263

I personally use Free AVG as my anti-virus program on my Windows machine. It comes with a command-line scanning utility which allows you to scan files manually. This could easily be executed from Java code.

I am sure some of the other anti-virus applications also come with command-line versions of their scanners. Any of these would be easily executed from Java code.

If you are on a UNIX machine, you may want to question this requirement of virus scanning since UNIX viruses are very rare and the effective ones are not easily detectable by anti-virus software. The value of such a feature may be non-existent.

Upvotes: 2

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