Reading the documentation of the windows defender API, for example in MpManagerOpen Function: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn920115(v=vs.85).aspx I see that the requi...

I want to scan files for virus and malware before they are uploaded to the server. For example, once a user uploads a file, there should be a scanner to detect if there is a virus or malware and re...

I have written some antivirus software in Python, but am unable to find virus signatures. The software works by dumping each file on the hard disk to hex, thus getting the hex signature. Wher...

I have some application. User can upload files, i save it on disk, and return it, when user want. I need implement some protection for uploaded files for viruses. I found 3 solutions for this probl...

Imagine the following situation: A virus infected file was commited into a Subversion repository. A Anti Virus scanner runs on the server and also scans the Subversion repository. The Anti Viru...

A week ago Norton Security started to find Trojan horse (Trojan.Gen.NPE.2) in file R.class located: app\build\intermediates\transforms\instantrun\debug\folders\1\5\main\android\support\v4\ r.class...

I have created a C# program and I recently noticed that when I merge my referenced .dlls into one executable .exe file using IL Merge, my Anti Virus (Avast) immediately deletes it and says that it'...

I downloaded Clamwin source code and loaded the clamwin solution to visual studio(2010 professional) and successfully built all project without any errors. After clicking start without debugging(se...

Is there a way to detect whether there is an antivirus software installed in a machine using C#? I know the Security Center detects antivirus software but how can you detect that in C#?

I'm testing my app on a Nexus 7 and a Samsung Galaxy S4, and I'm going to test the behaviour on a Galaxy S2. I installed AVG AntiVirus (free version) from the Play Store - tablet version(Nexus 7) a...

I've seen it happen reasonably often: I write an application in Delphi and when I compile it, the virus-scanner tells me that I've created a virus and then immediately deletes the executable again....

Let's say I created a file compression library, and this library was used in 1000 (non malicious) programs. But now a malware developer has decided to create a malware and use my library to compres...

I am following this tutorial here to install python: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/win/ When it gets to the part about installing setup tools and pip it links to a ez_set...

I would expect clamscan to skip files larger than 1k as specified below, but I do not see that the flag max file size makes a difference. Also, a mysterious fmap() error crops up occasionally for a...

I am trying to run an antivirus scan on an uploaded file in an ASP.Net web app. We are using Sophos so have access to their command line API sav32cli. In the code I use: Process proc = new Process...

How do anti-virus programs detect if something is a virus or trojan? I'm from Turkey, please keep the English simple if possible, thanks.

i wrote a batch script to delete shortcut virus from a usb drive and to display the hidden folder and files. @ECHO OFF TITLE SHORTCUT VIRUS REMOVER ECHO SHORTCUT VIRUS TEMPORARY REMOVER ECHO...

Basically, my program runs along side another jar file. Here is the code for the download function: public void saveUrl(final String filename, final String urlString) throws MalformedURLException,...

I use this code to run a daily check through cron 30 01 * * * /usr/bin/freshclam --quiet; /usr/bin/clamscan --recursive --no-summary --infected / 2>/dev/null I'm not sure if this code stores ...

I have an application and I'm trying to make sure it's running in a secure environment. First of all, I check if Windows is genuine, which makes it more likely that the user keeps it up-to-date. If...

This question is a follow-up to that question. To set the context of this question, consider Null-free programming. This is a technique to masquerade a sequence of instructions (shellcode) as a st...

How can I get information about the antivirus software and firewall software that is installed on a Windows computer?

We are implementing an enterprise application with a heavy focus on security, which includes the uploading of files. These files need to be virus scanned, but also need to be encrypted. The curren...

Would like to hear your suggestion to implement anti-virus Java API to scan uploaded document/files before storing them into database.

I have a program that I've been working on that downloads files. Everything works perfectly, unless a user is using AVG. Oddly enough, it seems that in order to fix the issue AVG's "Email Protectio...