Nextcloud Antivirus for Files

files_antivirus is an antivirus app for Nextcloud using ClamAV or Kaspersky.

Features

• 🐿️ When the user uploads a file, it's checked
• ☣️ Infected files will be deleted and a notification will be shown and/or sent via email
• 🔎 It runs a background job to scan all files
• 🦺 It will block all uploads if the file cannot be checked to ensure all files are getting scanned.

Requirements

One of

• ClamAV as binaries on the Nextcloud server
• ClamAV running in daemon mode
• Kaspersky Scan Engine running in HTTP mode
• Any virus scanner supporting ICAP (ClamAV and Kaspersky are tested, others should work)

Install

Documentation about installing ClamAV and this app can be found in our documentation.

ClamAV Details

This app can be configured to work with the executable or the daemon mode (recommended ❤️) of ClamAV. If this is used in daemon mode, it can connect through network or local file-socket. In daemon mode, it sends files to a remote/local server using the INSTREAM command.

Kaspersky HTTP Details

When running Kaspersky in HTTP mode the SessionTimeout will need to be set to a value higher than default, a value of 10 minutes (600000 millisecond) or higher is recommended to properly deal with larger uploads