On my other PC (windows XP SP2) i ran my app from my main pc using msvc05 to sort files across the network and found it couldnt move directories. One app i used on that PC couldnt function properly. All the files were automatically read only. Now on this PC i have the same symptom. Nothing act funny quiet yet (tortoiseSVN did but i am no...
I have Windows XP installed on an older system. Any suggestions for a free, lightweight anti virus program? ...
Our server already has symantic anti-virus with autoprotect enabled w/ regular scans and updates. I tested it and it does automatically scan uploaded files to document libraries. My question is, what additional benefit is there to using a specific anti-virus plugin instead of this current setup? There are at least 3 different plugins I ...
I'm building a portal that will allow users to upload files. I need to make sure that these files do not contain viruses. My ideal solution would be to have the host OS AV keep a watch on temporary folders and scan any incoming files. When a file is uploaded in ASP.Net 2, does it get written to disk in a temp folder, or is it persiste...
I want to programmatically test a file for viruses. I'm aware of this thread, which didn't get a satisfactory answer in my opinion, but I'm not looking for an API here. Any kind of workaround to make it possible to test a file would be fine. Of course, an API would probably be the best solution (I'm using .net on a Windows platform), b...
I am working on a project that will involve file upload to a server. I am interested in understanding what kinds of files virus writers currently tend to target. I am aware of the following threads: How would you programmatically test a file for viruses ? ensuring uploaded files are safe How can I determine a file’s true extension/type ...
The EICAR test virus is used to test the functionality of the anti virus programs. In order to detect it as a virus, Should the antivirus program have the virus definition for the test virus OR The heuristics detect it as a suspicious pattern and detect it as a virus. (I have seen an occasion that an AV program deletes the file whil...
When I obfuscate my application the antivirus gives a virus alert for the obfuscated application. What can I do to avoid this? I am using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Reactor 3.9.8.0 on Windows XP Professional. Windows and applications are up to date, and antivirus finds nothing when running a complete scan. EDIT: Avast Antivirus give...
According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883792 , MS can detect installed AV using either WMI or a manual method involving registry keys that MS knows about. Is there an API to access this functionality? ...
Our Network people insist on having antivirus (eTrust) software on ALL servers, including all of our SQL Server 2005 machines. How can I best demonstrate that this is hurting performance? ...
I'm looking for a way to emulate virus-like behaviour for testing exclusions in anti-virus software. Can anyone recommend some behaviour that I can put together in a quick script which would trigger a typical realtime anti-virus scanner? ...
I've been chasing a very mysterious bug for days now, which seems to revolve around the (ZLIB library); it occurs once every month or so, and only on some specific production environments. Here is what the code does: The program calls gzopen to write to a file X. The program writes data to the file, doing several gzwrite. The program f...
Hey guys, I'm making my first windows service in C#, at the moment a pretty innocent looking thing that doesn't do anything yet. However I find when I try to install it, either using a standard Setup project in Visual Studio, or using the simple "self-installer" outlined here, our company's antivirus won't allow installation because it...
I'm building a web application in which I need to scan the user-uploaded files for viruses. Does anyone with experience in building something like this can provide information on how to get this up and running? I'm guessing antivirus software packages have APIs to access their functionality programatically, but it seems it's not easy to...
I've seen it happen reasonably often: I write an application in Delphi and when I compile it, the virus-scanner tells me that I've created a virus and then immediately deletes the executable again. It's annoying but reasonable easy to fix by doing a full rebuild, deleting the *.dcu files first and sometimes by simply waiting. It happens...
Hello, As part of a web-application I'm building, I need to be able to scan the remote user's machine for viruses / malware, before they can continue using the web-application ... something like the McAfee On-Demand Scan. I'm assuming that ActiveX would be the way to go (since all the On-Demand scanners of the antivirus companies seem ...
While the installation of our software, on at least one PC, some files are replaced by html content and python of exactly the same size of the previous file, the creation date is exactly the same as others files. I suppose the antivirus (AVG free ) might be at fault, it look like the antivirus allocate memory to analyse the file, fail to...
This question is a little opinion based, but I think it can be based in fact and I would prefer answers backed up with a link to a reputable company if possible. The problem is at my job, we have "okay" hardware for the developers, laptops running Windows XP (I know) with dual core 2.3 Ghz processor, 2GB of memory and 60 GB hard disk @7...
I am writing a piece of messaging software that will send and receive text, voice, fax etc. via SMTP (email). I need to Programatically have the ability to scan incoming and outgoing emails for viruses, spam etc. QUESTION: Can anyone offer a suggestion on a product to use for this? I tend to stay away from the consumer level software (...
I need to scan uploaded files on a windows server through my ASP.NET web app. However, am not aware if anti virus packages come with an "api" sort of a thing using which i can programmatically trigger the scan. If possible i would really want to avoid any kind of windows scheduling to trigger the antivirus and then report the errors. ...