Regarding the same program as my question a few minutes ago... I added a setup project and built an MSI for the program (just to see if I could figure it out) and it works great except for one thing. When I tried to install it on my parent's laptop, their antivirus (the free Avast Home Edition) set off an alarm and accused my setup.exe ...
My boss has come to me and asked how to enure a file uploaded through web page is safe. He wants people to be able to upload pdfs and tiff images (and the like) and his real concern is someone embedding a virus in a pdf that is then viewed/altered (and the virus executed). I just read something on a procedure that could be used to destr...
What techniques can be applied to detect Polymorphic and Metamorphic viruses? How difficult is to implement these techniques? Are these techniques being applied in modern day anti-virus softwares? ...
What is the least intrusive and most effective antivirus software for a Windows PC that is used for software development (lots of small files and lots of disk I/O)? The software should support running from the command line so that virus scan be included into the build process. Edit: I understand that prevention techniques work better tha...
Let me start off with a bit of background. This morning one of our users reported that Testuff's setup file has been reported as infected with a virus by the CA antivirus. Confident that this was a false positive, I looked on the web and found that users of another program (SpyBot) have reported the same problem. A now, for the actual ...
Sometimes, we experiment "access denied" errors due to the antivirus which handles the file at the same time our program wants to write/rename/copy it. This happens rarely but makes me upset because I don't find the good way to deal with: technically our response is to change our source code to implement kind of retry mechanism... but w...
I need to scan uploaded files for viruses on a Linux server, but I'm not sure how to go about it. What are my options, if any? I'm also interested in how the scanners perform when multiple users send multiple files at the same time. ...
We are using Visual Studio 2008 as our primary development IDE. Our security team has set up McAfee to scan files in our \Local Settings\Temp folder. Unfortunately VS uses this directory during code builds which is slowing the developers down. We've reached an impasse with the security team on this, and wonder if anyone knows of a con...
I would like to use anti virus integration with my .net application when uploading files using the application. Has any anti virus API available for .Net? ...
My application deals with e-mails coming from different sources, e.g. Outlook and IMAP mailboxes. Before parsing them, I write them to the temporary directory (keeping them in memory is not an option). While parsing, I might be writing attachments to the temp directory (for example, if they are too large to keep in memory or for full-tex...
It's been my experience that some security software (like Symantec's Norton AntiVirus) oftentimes prohibit their removal from a Windows system via the "Add or Remove Programs" utility, going so far as to occasionally require a removal program obtained from Symantec's homepage. (I assume this it to prevent a malicious program from disabl...
We've had problems with a virus scanner murdering the performance of our app by slowing down writes to an H2 db. So we'd like to be able to detect the presence of any virus scanner and alert the user of the potential problem. It would be part of a problem detection retue that would alert users to known performance factors specific to the...
Is it possible at all to query (WMI?) the virus defnintions date of definitions installed on remote computers? I'd like to start specificially with Symantec Endpoint Protection, and then branch out to other antivirus products. This is a WinForms, .NET project. ...
We have an app that monitors a folder for file drop and need to initiate a virus scan before using any incoming files. This needs to be a part of the Delphi app and the file must pass the Virus Scan otherwise we delete the file. I know that there are command shell options available, however this must be a direct API call to a registere...
Hi, I'm looking for a solution that would let me scan files on the fly. It would need to integrate nicely with either with IIS(6.0 or 7.0) or ASP.NET. I spent some time trying to find something on the Internet but unfortunately all I've found is a COM based solution that still forces me to save files on disk (http://www.opswat.com/metas...
I'm running windows 2003 as a workstation and I was wondering if there are any good free anti virus programs for it. I liked AVG free but that doesn't work on 2003. So are there any alternatives and if so, which ones have you tried and like best? EDIT: Just to be clear it needs to be free and not a trial, else the best option for me ...
Has anyone experienced problems with Kaspersky anti-virus stopping browsers from displaying imagemaps created in an ASP.NET app? And if so, is there a way round this? Many thanks, Nick ...
Seems like a waste of resources to me, but our team is currently discussing. What is generally considered the best practice here? ...
Hi, We need to scan files as they are being uploaded using the Symantec AV Scan Engine from our .Net Application, which supports ICAP Any pointers on how to go about this would be very helpful. Kind regards, ...
Hi, We need to send uploaded files from our CMS website to any antivirus product as a POC. Are there any AV products out there that provide a .Net/COM API. Kind regards, ...