Good monks,

I have a custom-built content management system (in Perl of course ;-> ), through which users can upload files to share with others. Most of these files are Word and PDF files. maybe some Excel. I would like to virus scan them as they are uploaded. So, I am looking for suggestions on a good virus scanner (especially one that can catch MS macro viriiii) that runs on Linux with a reasonable database update frequency and has a good Perl API. Note that this CMM is CGI, so a scanner with a resident daemon is probably a good idea. Also, we are not against using commercial products.

I found the open-source project Clam AV http://www.clamav.net/. It looks promising, and the Perl module File::Scan::ClamAV seems sufficient. Looks good. They have some references regarding their update speed. It can be run in daemon mode. Anyone have any experience with it?

Ted Young

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In reply to CGI Antivirus Scanner by TedYoung

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