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Virus checking uploaded files

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Joe Craig
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12/27/2019 2:55 PM

Is anyone doing virus checking for files uploaded to DNN websites?  If so, what are you using.

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12/28/2019 2:59 AM
What do you mean? When ordinary users upload files, during that process? Or if you upload something yourself...
Joe Craig
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12/28/2019 2:05 PM
Somebody asked me a question about user uploads, but the question could apply to either reason.
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12/28/2019 3:44 PM
I’m not using any myself but I got the same question last week. i have found clamav (https://www.clamav.net/downloads#otherversions) but not tested it yet.
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12/30/2019 4:22 AM
Tycho (and Joe),

ClamAV does no real time scan (afair), and anyway, a real time scanner can produce incredible performance issues on your website. The solution could be an upload module that is using a folder outside of the website folder structure (which should be excluded from all visrus scans), and doing a call to ClamAV to scan the uploaded file. If it is clean, it can be moved to the portal files, otherwise deleted or quarantined or something.

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