Introduction

Most anti-virus software causes a dramatic increase in disk IO and CPU Usage and Atlassian has recommended to limit virus scanning to certain directories

However, some organisations still dictate that virus scanner must be enabled.


The Hidden Risk

Apart from the performance overheads, some virus scanners delete the infected attachments silently in the backend after the file has successfully uploaded.

The users will only realised that after clicking on the link to download the attachments to realise a broken link.

The system admins will spend precious time to trace the issue and try to retrieve the deleted files from the backup archives.

This lack of feedback causes a risk that files with important information are lost forever.


How the Attachment Checker helps

On-access Scanner is enabled

On-access Scanner is disabled