Hi! Stuart, It performs as you said. Thanks for the link.
Here we are using Virus scan enterprise 8.5 with on-access enabled on the submission server. During the submission process when the file is uploaded to the server from a client, at the upload interface, dspace throws a file upload error. It works fine for both virus file i.e. eicar.com and eicar.com.txt. But when we have multilevel virus zip files as in eicar_com.zip and eicarcom2.zip, the submission is accepted (Before accepting the submission since ZIP format is not supported, dspace asks to input the file format). It was nice to experiment and see that the basic level virus scan is in place. Would you suggest any antivirus product that would do a multilevel check even on zip files? Cheers! Jayan -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:21 PM To: DSpace Tech; Jayan Chirayath Kurian Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] virus scan for online submission of items in DSpace Hi Jayan, > We have started with our online theses submission system using DSpace. We have > on -access virus scanner software installed in our submission server. Since > students use LDAP to authenticate and submit online, I was just curious to > know while saving items into DSpace Assetstore, the online virus scanner would > perform a check since it would be enabled on item access. Whether there is a > possibility that the server would be already infected at the time of > submission. Please suggest if other alternative exists or the best possible > suggestion since the servers started accepting online submissions. The good > news is that it has already surpassed 500 online submissions and waiting for > approval in the workflow. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. I suspect you are OK with the way you are doing it. The file first gets uploaded to [dspace]/uploads/ temporarily until it is finally ingested into the assetstore. You might find enabling 'on write scanning' helps. If it doesn't get written there because your AV software catches it, you'll probably get a DSpace warning saying something along the lines of "Upload failed" as you would if for example your tomcat user couldn't write to that directory. Try using the EICAR test virus file ( http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm ) to see how it performs. I'd be interested to hear your results. Thanks, Stuart _________________________________________________________________ Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth Information Services Prifysgol Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University E-bost / E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffon / Tel: (01970) 622860 _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
