Java API for 3rd party anti virus tool integration

[asd]

Hi,
I need to perform a virus check while uploading a file to my application.
Could someone please tell me whether there are java APIs provided by anti virus tool providers like Norton,Mcafe etc for this ? Or are there any standard APIs supported by vendors ?
Regards,
Biju

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Not very sure . But I think antivirus companies might have some antivirus checking services exposed to be used by other applications.But this might not be free of cost.

[asd]

Thanks Rahul...
And any body knows whether these APIs come along with the product CD ?
Or do we need to purchace them separatly ?
Any info on this regard will be greatly helpful...
thanks,
bijukumar

[Paul Clapham]

I certainly didn't get any documentation about programmable interfaces when I bought my latest anti-virus package. This is not at all surprising since 99.9% of their users would have no idea what that is.

But I wouldn't be surprised if the anti-virus suppliers had something you could call from your own code. Don't expect them to give it to you for free, as Rahul already said. If you want information you should ask the company whose product you are interested in using.

[tom mullen]

OPSWAT has a product line called Metascan that provides a generic Java API to manage many antivirus packages.
The list of supported 3rd party packages is at http://www.opswat.com/products/metascan/supported-applications
Metascan comes in 3 flavors, the base API called Core.
Lite adds licensed engines from CA, ESET and Norman built-in
Ultra adds the above 3 plus AVG, Sunbelt, VirusBuster, Clam and more engines and a URL classification engine
The overview page for the product line is at http://www.opswat.com/products/metascan/metascan
There is a free evaluation

[Ulf Dittmer]

In the interest of full disclosure it must be noted that "tom mullen" is apparently associated with the commercial product he advocates.