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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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C# app flagged in virus total "Contacted IP Addresses" don't know why

I have created an application in C# that is just about ready to hit production, just off the top of my head I thought I had better upload this to virus total to make sure there are no False-Positives, 2 antivirus's threw false positives, however on…
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Excel code shows modules but with hidden code

i just recieved an e-mail with a virus embeded in xlsm format. So how i'm curious i wanted to check the code. Enabled everything of security on Excel to avoid events starting and other stuffs after opening the contamined file. Kaspersky flagged the…
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Virus scan inside docker image

I build a docker image for my customer with my application. The customer wants a virus scan for the image. But how can I scan for virus inside an image? Can I install an antivirus software on my machine and it scans inside the image or do I need a…
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Send attachment by email in C++ vs safety rules

I'm able to correctly send smtp mails with PDF file attached from my C++ application. All the users can download the PDF attached file from their Mail client if they use their laptop or desktop pc, but some of them (about 4 out of ten users) are not…
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How to intentionally trigger a false positive from a virus scan?

I want to test a virus scanner, but I don't want to have actual malware stored on my machine. In the past, I've seen innocuous software marked as a virus by vague "heuristics" from anti-malware programs. I want to write a program that is not in any…
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Symantec Scan Engine and Symantec Endpoint Protection

We have a website where users upload different files of type tif, zip, csv and pdf. What we want is to check every file provided by users for viruses before uploading the file to its final location where it is consumed by other services. We have…
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How to scan virus for Upload docs using Window defender in C#

I want to scan the uploaded document using c#. Currently, I'm using window defender in my Machine
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Suspicious PowerShell Command

My anti virus keeps alerting me with below mentioned powershell command. I'm a bit familiar with Powershell but can't understand what does below powershell script does. Also most importantly I want to know what is "-e" parameter, used in command…
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How can I improve my Program so that eScan doesn't think it's a virus?

This is my class: class Program { [DllImport("User32", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] public static extern int SystemParametersInfo(int uiAction, int uiParam, string pvParam, uint fWinIni); static void Main(string[] args) { …
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XLSM with API calls marked as "virus" when attached to email

I found this solution for copying to the clipboard: Excel 2013 64-bit VBA: Clipboard API doesn't work I added it to my code and everything worked great. But when I attached it to an email to send it to my work computer, Gmail balked, stating that…
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Can we do virus scan on a file what gets uploaded via a portal in IBM Cloud(Bluemix)

Can we do virus scan on a file that gets uploaded via a portal in IBM Cloud(Bluemix). If so in there a feature provided by Docker or any other component. The Devops team is not able to figure out any available soultion/feature which can help in the…
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dhcpsapi.exe File keep running in task manager

I have a file with description "Подключаемый модуль пересылки событий WS-Management" and name dhcpsapi.exe running in task manager. It seems like a virus to me.Whenever i tried to delete or open its location i am getting access denied in my admin…
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CONSUME ANTIMALWARE SCAN INTERFACE (AMSI) FROM C# in windows 2008 R2 or 2016

I am working with (AMSI) in Dotnet core API to scan the virus-infected file and it is working fine with windows 10 But on production, We have windows 2008r2 and it does not provide the (AMSI). So is that possible to use (AMSI) on server 2008 r2 or…
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How to fix this md5 scanner not removing infected malware files?

I'm doing a QC check on my finished md5 malware scanner using a Hyper-V VM running Windows 10. The scanner didn't remove the malware samples supplied from https://virusshare.com which hashes were contained in the scanner database and were…
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FileStorage files seems empty after virus-scanning

I used flask and flask-restplus to generate an upload api endpoint for my application. All seems working fine, but files data received are empty and then the saved file is empty. Here is my code upload_parser =…
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