Automatic virus scan of uploaded files on BBS?

[Jay West]

WWIV did, written by Wayne Bell. Later development was taken over by Jon 
Riker (Tolkien) in St. Louis (who has moved off the radar, I THINK somewhere 
in texas).

I ran a WWIV board and was on WWIVnet for quite a few years. Still have a 
backup of the last day the BBS was running (on CDROM) as well as every file 
ever uploaded. That would include great gobs of C64 software, and just about 
every DOS/EarlyWindows app of the period.

WWIV didn't have virus scanning hard coded into the BBS. But in the 
configuration there were specific hooks to call external programs upon 
upload. This was to scan for viri, test the integrity of the zip file, as 
well as insert an ascii art file inside the archive saying "This file was 
from.....".

If you want proof, I can send you the running BBS :)

Jay