Hi, I am thinking of starting a web directory. I am planning on having people submit their website link to me via email, so I can check for spam and content quality. Is there a website or program that provides a service for checking if the links have a virus or not? Thanks in advance, -DigiP
If you have a virus scammer, when you click upon a virus laden link, it should prompt you an alert. But it is not possible to see if there is any virus, just from the link without clicking.
So there isn't any website that provides a service similiar to copyscape for coprighted content.. Only except that rather checking for content, it checks for a virus? -DigiP
no. to be frank. Also the only people that really have to deal with viruses are windows users, and provided everybody who has windows has virus protection whether or not your files have viruses in them or not right? I use OS X and linux and although there are viruses for them (50 reposted since 1966, and all dealt with) that's nothing compared to the 200,000 reported viruses in the first 10 years of windows (who knows what it is now) and almost all of them not fixed, they rely on virus scanners to protect them. If you're serious about viruses you wouldn't be using a toy operating system. virus scanning it's HTML's job quite frankly.
If you do it manually, you would probably be using your own computer, I suggest using firefox. Then if you want quality, just reject the link if it looks ugly or too colorful or spammy.
Now, Google uses some fancy Javascript code that rejects all windows executables. It will even search a .zip and reject it from mailing in gmail if it finds a clean windows executable - can never be too cautious! You might be able to steal this scripts from gmail and see how they built it, but unless you have javascript experience, it can be a little hard to understand, trust me. Fortunately, there should be tons of programmers here that do understand JS so you're in luck, I'm sure you'll find somebody