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>At first, we looked at services like VirusTotal and a few other open source options. But there was nothing that would run independent and download the file and scan quickly.

VirusTotal is actually downloading the file from a URL independently and (from my experience) near - instantly scanning it. So why reinvent the wheel? (Plus, VirusTotal uses many scan engines to determine a result...)

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Good points. I think unless you use their API you can only upload. I think there might be a file size limit too. One thing I didn't realize is it looks like google owns or sponsors the site. I think the samples they collect are interesting and valuable.

If you have any other ideas or thoughts keep this thread going and I'll respond. Thanks for the feedback.

Also I'm sceptical as to how good ClamAV is, I can't find any hard numbers (which isn't a good sign).

Yeah. One interesting thing could be for us to run some numbers and post them. It would be relatively trivial with this setup.

Can you recommend or point out other engines? Thanks for the response.

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