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By rwalling
via softwarebyrob.com
Submitted: May 15 2008 / 11:24
"A middle-manager who learned about viruses from his son’s copy of Wired magazine realizes you’re saving user-uploaded files to your web server, and asks if you’re scanning for viruses. You panic, mumble something about how that’s “in the works,” and rush off to look for an open source component to help you get this going fast. You frantically search Google for 'virus scan from [your language here]' but the results are dismal. You try 5 or 6 other searches and they all yield the same result: people like yourself asking this same question on forum after forum, with no helpful answers." Read on..
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Topnotch replied ago:
'The quick and dirty approach is to save the file to the file system and check if it exists. If it does, no virus. If it’s gone, virus.'
Oh man this guy has got be kidding right? By the time the virus is saved to the HDD it's already too late. This just isn't good advice at all.
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