Re: IMAP and Anti Virus Scanning For File Attachments

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On 04 Feb 2014 at 11:00, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> 2014-02-04 Maciek Sokolewicz <maciek.sokolewicz@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> On 4-2-2014 6:38, Ron Piggott wrote:
>>
>>> I am wondering what (or how) to protect from viruses when processing IMAP
>>> file attachments.  I am using PHP 5.5.7 and Arch Linux.

>> That depends on what you want to do with the attachments. How do you
>> process them? Simple text files for example are unable to contain virusses
>> and are thus harmless.

> Thats wrong. For example HTML is a simple text-file too, but still can
> contain javascript-code and whatever flaws it may have.

For display purposes, use a sandboxed iframe. Then you can display the html while preventing any js execution.

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