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Virus-scanning is the process of finding and eliminating malicious software on a computer. Use this tag for programming questions related to virus scanning on any platform/OS.

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What are good sources for virus signature data?

Is there any website which provides antivirus definition database to help make new antivirus software?
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Is it possible to scan git commits for viruses, worms, malware and the like?

Does there exist a scanning tool that can scan a repository for malicious code? Suppose our company had a disgruntled employee who wanted to introduce a virus/malware/trojan etc. to our code base. Is there a way to automatically scan for such…
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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…
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Apache suddenly failing to open anything. Does not timeout continues to load

Yesterday my life with Apache was fine. As if has been for over a year on my laptop here. However today it has suddenly decided to stop cooperating. I do not understand why and I have been hunting for a solution for hours. It is important as I…
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Avoiding antivirus false-positive detection upon a new release

We have released a new application recently and every few days we're releasing a new version with some bug fixes. Do we need to submit all antivirus makers a white-listing request of our new binary every time we release an updated version? We are…
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Avoid false positive detection of our Installer as malware

We're developing an application, which has been around for many years and comes with an Installshield Installer. Recently, virustotal shows that our latest, already released installer is detected by 2 (Kaspersky and ZoneAlarm by Check Point) out of…
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VirusTotal .NET API: sample crashed because disposed Objects

i try to reproduce this code from genbox: https://github.com/Genbox/VirusTotalNet/blob/master/src/VirusTotalNet.Examples/Program.cs In Line 31: if i try it with the True-Branch, it works fine. But if i try it with a unknown value, the False-Branch…
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.net API to the local virus scan engine?

I've searched now for more hours about information on how to scan files in .NET (C#) with the local Windows registered virus scan engine. Found e.g. this (.NET virus scanning API) and some older other examples... It seems that some virus scan…
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Antirus File Scan real time check & AMSI verification

I want to scan for malware content directly in memory files and I want to know which is the best way to do it. I’m in charge with the improvement of the website security policy for our web applications that were developed in .net core and Angular I…
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Scan files in AWS S3 bucket for virus using lambda

We've a requirement to scan the files uploaded by the user and check if it has virus and then tag it as infected. I checked few blogs and other stackoverflow answers and got to know that we can use calmscan for the same. However, I'm confused on…
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Download Malware samples by searching hash values

I am conducting a research to download ransomware samples, in order to analyze them. The challenge lies in downloading the ransomware binaries. I have gone through carious websites, as virusign, malshare and malwre and downloaded more than 60000,000…
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How can I run a virus scan on files in VB.NET before storing them in SQL Server 2005 database?

I want to upload media and textual files inside the database for my personal use. I have been successful in adding all the files to the database, but I want to scan each file for viruses before uploading it into the database so that a infected file…
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Virus scanning files with Japanese Characters in C# using nClam and ClamAV

We've been working on implementing a virus scanning procedure for files being uploaded into our system - it's a C# web app where we've used the nClam plugin to converse with a ClamAV server. In a really basic setup (copied from the nClam help), it…
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mingw installer virus detected on virustotal. false positive?

A virus has been detected in mingw installer. Mainly in Virobot and TheHacker antivirus scanners. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/aab27bd5547d35dc159288f3b5b8760f21b0cfec86e8f0032b49dd0410f232bc/analysis/1430491365/ I have searched on google as…
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Google Drive SDK - Upload and Virus Scan

I am building a batch upload process for Google Drive. I have been trying to confirm that all files upload via the API are also scanned for viruses and malware, but can not find any documentation on this. Does anyone know if 1: All files are…
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