Comments on: Lessons Learned Trying to Scan for Viruses from ASP.NET http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/05/15/virus-scanning-from-code/ Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:42:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/05/15/virus-scanning-from-code/comment-page-1/#comment-3832 Rob Thu, 15 May 2008 15:47:38 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/05/15/virus-scanning-from-code/#comment-3832 @Anon - Haha, I wish it were the case that there were bugs in my code - I tried every working code sample online trying to get it to work. I used the same code against the Sophos engine and it worked. I have a conspiracy theory about this that I won't go into here. Regarding clamav: I knew when I posted this that I'd get 100 chuckleheads talking about how I missed out on some wondrous open source tool that would make all of this go away. We didn't "completely miss" clamav, in fact we evaluated it, but it was eliminated because the virus definitions are not nearly as up to date as commercial a/v tools. @Anon – Haha, I wish it were the case that there were bugs in my code – I tried every working code sample online trying to get it to work. I used the same code against the Sophos engine and it worked. I have a conspiracy theory about this that I won’t go into here.

Regarding clamav: I knew when I posted this that I’d get 100 chuckleheads talking about how I missed out on some wondrous open source tool that would make all of this go away. We didn’t “completely miss” clamav, in fact we evaluated it, but it was eliminated because the virus definitions are not nearly as up to date as commercial a/v tools.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/05/15/virus-scanning-from-code/comment-page-1/#comment-3831 Anonymous Thu, 15 May 2008 15:37:21 +0000 http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/05/15/virus-scanning-from-code/#comment-3831 > fine on the command line, executing it from code > inexplicably results in absolutely no output. Ah yes, that timeless classic. Blame the 3rd party for your own bugs in your very own code! And yes, it's 100% certain that YOU screwed up here -- because, you know, the shell this antivirus tool worked from just fine is "code" too... Oh, and how you could manage to completely miss clamav, the one antivirus that is both Open Source *and* exists as a library that you can easily use, is beyond me. > fine on the command line, executing it from code
> inexplicably results in absolutely no output.

Ah yes, that timeless classic. Blame the 3rd party for your own bugs in your very own code! And yes, it’s 100% certain that YOU screwed up here — because, you know, the shell this antivirus tool worked from just fine is “code” too…

Oh, and how you could manage to completely miss clamav, the one antivirus that is both Open Source *and* exists as a library that you can easily use, is beyond me.

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