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TutorCruncher virus checker

TutorCruncher's service for checking uploaded documents with ClamAV, built with FastAPI.

How it works

ClamAV starts with it's multi-threaded daemon clamav-daemon. We then use clamdscan to scan files for viruses. Updates are run automatically by the service clamav-freshclam.

The endpoint /check/ takes arguments for an AWS S3 bucket name and key, which are signed by a shared secret key. This app will get the object using the env variables for your AWS keys and check it against the virus database. A response will be given for the status of the file, and it will be tagged in AWS.

Running the app locally

Set your environment variables seen in tc_av/app/settings.py, change directory to tc_av/ and run python run.py.

Running the app on Heroku

We deploy with Heroku, so there's a prebuilt heroku.yml file you can use.