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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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PHP and simpleXML - Do i need to check integrity of xml for viruses?

I allow customers to share xml files on a site, they can upload and download the files. I use php and simpleXML to parse the file but do not do any checks to validate the file right now other than: if( ! $xml = simplexml_load_file('xml/'.$xml_file)…
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Virus-scan file with Powershell

Is it possible to trigger a virus scan on a file with PowerShell? We want to search a file for virus, and if the file is ok; move the file to another directory.. We have thought about setting up a dedicated server for this with some software for the…
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javascript triggering virus scan

We have observation for a javascript method which taking more time than anticipated, realised that a VirusScan is kicked everytime that javascript method called which is using innerHTML code. We have not yet concluded. But just want to know if any…
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scanning compressed files with mcafee command line virusscan for linux is slow

Using McAfee 64-bit command line virusscan 6.0.4 for linux. It is taking 4 hours to scan 17 files many of which are compressed (zip, tar, ova, etc). I have tried increasing cache size, number of threads. Nothing seems to improve the…
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Is there a simple way to effectively cat a filestream without writing to disk?

I'm working on a system to scan remote files for viruses. I'm downloading as a stream and would like to avoid saving unscanned files to disk for obvious reasons. I can use clamscan for scanning the stream, but I'm not sure how to generate that…
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how to use "sendTextMessage" properly since some anti-virus apps will determine that it is a virus?

Our app will use "SmsManager sendTextMessage" to send SMS which is edited by user. But some anti-virus apps will determine our app is a virus. How could I avoid this except asking anti-virus apps to add our app to white list? Thanks.
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Minimum length of virus signatures

I haven't found information about this anywhere. Is there a minimal required length for virus signatures? I've read in book by Peter Szor that for 16-bit applications 16 bytes is enough even to avoid false positives. Is there equvilent minimum for…
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JS:Redirector-NL [Trj] - How to remove this trojan?

I have this "JS:Redirector-NL [Trj]" virus issue in my website http://nutriconsulting.com.br/ , when someone opens the web , avast antivirus displays a popup which shows this error Infection Details URL: …
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Virus Total API Endpoint For URL Report Not Working

I have started using VirusTotal & trying to generate URL report. The URL that I am using to test the code is "https://xyqhsservice-logg.in/" which has a 503 status code but somehow the API endpoint is not working. I checked the documentation…
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Malware scans for Jupyer Notebook uploads?

For a project I am working on we need to allow users to upload Notebook files. What are some of the ways that we can use to make sure that the uploaded Notebook file doesn't include a malicious payload? Although they are just json files can the…
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VirusTotal URL Analysis Report API

Using the sample JavaScript code from https://developers.virustotal.com/reference/url-info, I tried to retrieve information for URL scanning: 1st API run to get the URL analysis id: const apiKey = {api-key}; console.log("testing in…
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Is there a way that I can obtain logs (or any other way) of Windows API calls made by a process?

I am trying to build an anomaly detection system for ransomware and one of the features that I want to use is the number of calls that a process makes to certain Windows APIs, such as calls that are done when a process is encrypting a file. Is there…
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What is the proper way of scanning files uploaded by a user using an api

we are a small team of devs currently working on a website which hosts some awards for its' participants. The user is able to create and account, log in and then fill up a form, part of filling the form is to upload some pdf files, we are looking…
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How to see which files (and their path) that were infected after running LMD (Linux Malware Detect) scan?

I searched through my /var/www folder where I have around 10 different websites with Linux Malware Detection with the following command: sudo maldet --scan-all /wwwdata/ The report shows the following: PATH: /wwwdata/ TOTAL FILES: …
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Do CVEs against netty apply to reactor netty?

My security tool is detecting a reactor netty package and flagging it with a netty CVEs. Details: My server has reactor netty v1.0.23 installed (v1.0.23 was released Sep 30, 2022) My security tool identifies CVE-2019-20445 CVE-2019-20445 was…
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