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Hi, i am not sure whether this is in the right section or not but i am building an file upload site and want to be able to scan the files on upload for viruses etc.. How would i be able to do this?

Any ideas to get me started?

Thanks

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You need a command line scanner which you can trigger with exec, passthru or system.

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Ok, thanks for the reply, i had a look around, and found that you can download a file for the command line scanner, so do i just upload this to my server and then use the exec to run the programme to scan the file

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Be sure to check that you have all required files. Most scanners have separate virus definition files, that need to be updated regularly.

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Ok, will do, is there anyway to be able to create a report at the end of the scan that shows what each AV found? Is it like some sort of postback method?

Thanks for the help

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You can trap it's output, if that's what you mean.

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