.NET virus scanning API

Question

I\'m building a web application in which I need to scan the user-uploaded files for viruses.

Does anyone with experience in building something like this can provide

Answer 1

From my experience you can use COM for interfacing with some anti-virus software. But what I would suggest is a bit easier, just parse scan results after scanning. All you need to do is to start the scanner process and point it to file/folder you want to scan, store scan results into file or redirect stdout to your application and parse results.