virus-scanning

How can I test my applications against the popular virus scanners?

I need to find out whether my apps are being flagged as viruses by the most popular anti-virus packages (not best, but biggest by user base). I therefore would like to know how others go about this. Some background: I have an application written in Delphi. Ever since the Delphi virus was found, I've had problems with false positives on ...

Anyone having problems with Delphi-2010 and Norton Internet Security 2010 ?

I just spend the good part of the afternoon trying to find out why some projects, when compiled and run from within the Delphi-2010 IDE produced a 'Security Risk - A program is behaving suspiciously on your computer' warning every time I compiled it. In the end it turned out to be the following: - if version information is turned on 'In...

Detect if a windows machine has a virus scanner running?

Possible Duplicate: Detect Antivirus on Windows using C# In .net I would like to be able to detect of a windows box has a virus scanner running. Windows 7 knows because in "Control Panel\System and Security\Action Center" it reports the status of your virus scanner. ...

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? ...

On-demand virus scanning Windows

I'm wanting to scan files a user uploads to our websites on the server-side. I'd prefer it to be something we can run on-demand that doesn't have to be running all the time on the server. What solutions are available for Windows Server 2008 R2? Which products specifically would you recommend? ...

What are good sources for virus signature data

I there any website which can provide a antivirus definition database to create a new antivirus software. ...

Uploading doc files

Does anyone know of examples of major sites that will allow uploading of docs files to there system, I am thinking of allowing this upload but I'm worried about the posibility of users uploading viruses. I'm worried that someone uploading a virus to the site could affect it's reputation. Should I just allow pdf's instead or have to hav...