On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:57 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering whether Couch-Db has anything for visurs scanning while > uploading attachments. > I don't know, something like a Symantec remote service,configurable, etc. And > a quarantine to put those files checked positive.
On CouchDB, you'd do this in your application before attaching the file. Ideally, you'd have CouchDB set up in such a way that a virus would not be able to do any damage if, for some reason, it executed. I personally use Grsecurity to accomplish this on my production servers (which aren't running CouchDB but should work with CouchDB). If you wanted to use CouchDB to host a virus database, then you'd want to store a property for if it was scanned and the result of the scan. Just having a file attached isn't going to "infect" a computer. You have to execute the program, and I'm not sure that CouchDB stores attachments in such a way that it would be possible to do that.
