Posted by Dominic Tocci on 07/08/05 23:36

"Dave" <dave@REMOVEbundook.com> wrote in message
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> Dominic Tocci (nntp2@toccionline.com) decided we needed to hear...
>> Does anyone know of way in PHP of virus-scanning a file upload? Users
>> upload exe files on my site and I'd like to give them a preliminary virus
>> scan automatically in my php code. An open source solution would be
>> ideal,
>> but I'd settle for any solution. I'm on a linux server if that makes a
>> difference.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dominic
>
> Try ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net/ - its excellent.
>
> You can call it from your PHP code (or pretty much anywhere else) so in
> that sense it will do exactly what you want, but if your webhost
> doesn't allow you to install software or set up cron jobs (used to
> update the virus db) then its probably not for you.
> --
> Dave <dave@REMOVEbundook.com>
> (Remove REMOVE for email address)

Thanks, Dave. That sounds perfect. I will check it out now.

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