Re: Re: IMAP and Anti Virus Scanning For File Attachments

2014-02-04 Maciek Sokolewicz <maciek.sokolewicz@gmail.com>: > On 4-2-2014 6:38, Ron Piggott wrote: > >> I am wondering what (or how) to protect from viruses when processing IMAP >> file attachments. I am using PHP 5.5.7 and Arch Linux. >> >> Ron Piggott >> >> >> >> www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info >> >> > That depends on what you want to do with the attachments. How do you > process them? Simple text files for example are unable to contain virusses > and are thus harmless. Thats wrong. For example HTML is a simple text-file too, but still can contain javascript-code and whatever flaws it may have. > The only times you really need to check for virusses is if you expect your > attachment to be executed at some point. > > If all you do is show "hey, there was an attachment of x.y kb included", > then there's no need to even bother checking for virusses. At least, not > until you run any service/program which might in turn attempt to execute > the file (for some odd reason). > Regarding the initial question: Download the attachment and call a common anti-virus tool with the (temporary) downloaded file as parameter. > > - Tul > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- github.com/KingCrunch