Virus scanning

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omegerard

Hi,

Can Alfresco be linked to e.g. clamav to have uploaded documents scanned on viruses (via a rule)?

Ludo

rdanner

Hi,

Can Alfresco be linked to e.g. clamav to have uploaded documents scanned on viruses (via a rule)?

Ludo

Well alfresco (by default) stores it's files on disk (like any other file) which means if you scan the root and children folder of the disk based content store, you get a virus scan.

What is maybe less then great about this is many fold:
   If you use a different store implementation such as the database or the content ether or whatever else… you loose.

   Secondly Alfresco has no idea about the scan, it can’t trigger it, protect the file until one is done, keep a log of scans, or anything else like that. 


All of these types of things are very possible.  They can be coded up as actions and aspects.  This is just another piece of the business continuity pie along with backup and document lifecycle concerns.

I am sure in time; you will see the emergence of this type of functionality at least in the enterprise portions of the product.