Scan afile for virus in ruby on rails

Rails
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Hi every body…

I want to scan a file, that is uploaded(media file,images) using
browse path, for virus in radrails.

Is there any plug-in or script code for scanning using ruby on rails.

Its urgent… Please help me… If any one have any idea please post
yiur views.

Regards
Krishna.Mundra

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On 21 Feb 2007, at 08:27, Krishna M. wrote:

I want to scan a file, that is uploaded(media file,images) using
browse path, for virus in radrails.

Is there any plug-in or script code for scanning using ruby on rails.

Its urgent… Please help me… If any one have any idea please post
yiur views.

I don’t have any code available for you, but in short, this is the
way to go: download a virus scanner you can access through the
command line, like http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/
linux.asp, dan call it from your RoR application to scan the file.
I’m not sure what RadRails has to do with this, if you’re just
looking for virus protection on your development pc, installing any
of the known scanners (Avast, AVG, Â…) will protect your pc from
incoming viruses. An even better option would be to just backup your
pc, wipe it clean and install Linux (or install Linux as your primary
OS besides Windows) on it or buy a Mac :wink:

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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Peter De Berdt wrote:

On 21 Feb 2007, at 08:27, Krishna M. wrote:

I want to scan a file, that is uploaded(media file,images) using
browse path, for virus in radrails.

Is there any plug-in or script code for scanning using ruby on rails.

Its urgent… Please help me… If any one have any idea please post
yiur views.

I don’t have any code available for you, but in short, this is the
way to go: download a virus scanner you can access through the
command line, like http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/
linux.asp, dan call it from your RoR application to scan the file.
I’m not sure what RadRails has to do with this, if you’re just
looking for virus protection on your development pc, installing any
of the known scanners (Avast, AVG, Â…) will protect your pc from
incoming viruses. An even better option would be to just backup your
pc, wipe it clean and install Linux (or install Linux as your primary
OS besides Windows) on it or buy a Mac :wink:

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

Hi Peter,

Thank you very much for posting a reply…
But as I am new to Ruby… I just want to scan a file uploaded using
browse button before opening it…(actually in My Application we upload
mediafiles,images and .CSV files…

So Is there a way to scan that on client side or on the server side
before the file gets opened…

Once again thanking you… :slight_smile: please give me reply…

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Peter Told Correctly.

  1. Install an antivirus in the server. Eventhough it is linux.
  2. upload the file using RoR
  3. use ruby’s system “command” or command to run the antivirus on
    the uploaded file.
  4. There is now to scan in the client side itself before uploading
    unless the user does it manually.

On Feb 22, 10:59 am, Krishna M. [email protected]

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I really recommend to take a look at http://www.clamav.net/ it’s an
open source anti virus and I used it a lot to filter emails
attachments on smtp servers.
All what you have to do is to launch the antivirus cli command as you
would run any other o.s. command (as described at point 3 by Shrini).
The command will exit with a different exit code depending by the file
containing or not a virus. You can use this exit code to take
decisions about what to do with the file.
Clamav can run even as a daemon, but the cli command is probably a
simpler start point to call the anti virus from ruby.
On many linux distros the clamav package is already included so
apt-get/rpm commands will do the install job for you.
Obviously the virus scanning need to happen once the file is on your
server, but you can scan it imediately after the upload before
launching any other sort of processing on the file itself.
I would insert the scanning as a part of the model validation.
There’s probably no way to trigger a scan client side but doesn’t even
make sense, definitely you don’t want to trust a client telling your
server an uploaded file is ok :wink:

Paolo