Re: IMAP and Anti Virus Scanning For File Attachments

On 04 Feb 2014 at 11:00, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> 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. For display purposes, use a sandboxed iframe. Then you can display the html while preventing any js execution. -- Cheers -- Tim