AntiVirus online
OnWorks provides an enhanced security measure for their end users. OnWorks provides an Antivirus online so that our end users can scan online any file that will be run in Windows and Linux systems. This antivirus is based on ClamAV which is an open-source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit that has been integrated in OnWorks.net platform in order to protect our end users systems.
This antivirus provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The way that Onworks.net uses ClamAV is the command line scanner once the file has been uploaded to our platform. This OnWorks antivirus has built-in support for various archive formats, executable formats, and popular document formats. It is intended to reduce the risk of intrusion or malicious system or data access.
It recognizes:
- * RAR, Tar, Gzip, ZIP, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, and SIS formats
- * Most mail file formats like EML
- * Executable, ELF and Portable Executable (PE) files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, and Upack, or obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor.
- * Microsoft documents, PDF files from Adobe, Office Open XML file formats, HTML, Rich Text Format (RTF).
Providing this tool, OnWorks gives a new meaning to the way we protect our end users willing to run apps over any Operative System.
The ClamAV virus database is updated at least every four hours and contains millions virus signatures.