delphidelphi-7antivirus-integrationwindows-xp-sp2

Execute antivirus program programmatically using delphi


I wrote an small app to transfer files using the indy components, now i want start the antivirus program when the transfer is finished to check the files.

how i can execute the antivirus program installed in the client side, when the download finish?

UPDATE I need implement something similar to firefox when download a file and then execute the antivirus installed in the machine.

thanks in advance.


Solution

  • See the nice person's answer to my other question.

    Looks like there are two COM interfaces you should be grabbing, one of which is documented here:

    IAttachmentExecute

    This interface is part of the windows shell interfaces.

    here is the commentary in the source

    /**
     * Code overview
     *
     * Download scanner attempts to make use of one of two different virus
     * scanning interfaces available on Windows - IOfficeAntiVirus (Windows
     * 95/NT 4 and IE 5) and IAttachmentExecute (XPSP2 and up).  The latter
     * interface supports calling IOfficeAntiVirus internally, while also
     * adding support for XPSP2+ ADS forks which define security related
     * prompting on downloaded content.  
     *
     * Both interfaces are synchronous and can take a while, so it is not a
     * good idea to call either from the main thread. Some antivirus scanners can
     * take a long time to scan or the call might block while the scanner shows
     * its UI so if the user were to download many files that finished around the
     * same time, they would have to wait a while if the scanning were done on
     * exactly one other thread. Since the overhead of creating a thread is
     * relatively small compared to the time it takes to download a file and scan
     * it, a new thread is spawned for each download that is to be scanned. Since
     * most of the mozilla codebase is not threadsafe, all the information needed
     * for the scanner is gathered in the main thread in nsDownloadScanner::Scan::Start.
     * The only function of nsDownloadScanner::Scan which is invoked on another
     * thread is DoScan.
    

    I found some more implementation information here. The feature is called AES.