Anti virus API?
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Here's the scenario: Customers upload files via a support site. The support engineer needs to download the file, scan it for viruses and if it's infected, notify the customer. To avoid this hassle, we'd like to make virus checking a part of the upload process so we can immediately notify the customer and save time for ourselves. Is there any anti-virus company out there that has a simple "Scan this file and tell me if it's infected" function you can call? We can think of a few work arounds (like emailing the file to a mail server which has virus checking software on it), but we'd really like to make it part of the process. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... thanks!
Mike Sax http://www.Sax.net Rock Solid Components™
I wonder if Symantec and McAfee are in the process of providing a web service for this purpose. I'd certainly drop them an email to see if they provide this, or some similar, service. By the way, is this the same Sax that's been around for years? I used a Sax serial communications C++ library in the mid 90s that saved me a ton of time, so if that was you, nice work, man! Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)