Re: Re: IMAP and Anti Virus Scanning For File Attachments
| From: | Maciek Sokolewicz | Date: | Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:08:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: IMAP and Anti Virus Scanning For File Attachments | ||
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On 4-2-2014 12:00, Sebastian Krebs wrote:
2014-02-04 Maciek Sokolewicz <maciek.sokolewicz@gmail.com>:It seems I oversimplified in my explenation; the point I was trying to make was that you still need to execute it before a virus can infect anything. Javascript needs to be executed. If you don't execute it, nothing can happen.On 4-2-2014 6:38, Ron Piggott wrote:Thats wrong. For example HTML is a simple text-file too, but still can contain javascript-code and whatever flaws it may have.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.infoThat 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.