Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Consider this: http://help.rr.com/getpage.asp?/faqs/e_mgsp.html.
From what I read, 80% of corporate mail servers now incorporate some
form of virus detection.

It would be nice if James had a matcher capable of virus detection.
I came across this article
http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1650, and the associated
OpenAV project at www.openantivirus.org.

Imagine my pleasure at finding that the official projects,
ScannerDaemon, VirusHammer and PatternFinder, are written in Java.
The project page mentions GPL, but their SourceForge.net page
mentions that it is also licensed under BSD, so we'll just have to
ask for clarification, and make sure that we have some Open Source,
non-GPL, license, as we've received from other cooperative projects.
The scanner is licensed GPL and I do not plan to release it under a less restricting license. You still can use it via the TCP/IP-interface.

I think that this looks interesting, but I expect my own time to be
consumed on other parts of James.  Does someone else have the time
and interest to look at wrapping a Matcher around the OpenAV scanner
classes?
A wrapper would be very easy. Something like

scanner.scan(file);

where 'file' is a 'File'. An VirusFoundException is being thrown if a virus has been detected and nothing happens otherwise.

Greetings,

Kurt
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