What is PhpMussel?
phpMussel is an open source PHP script designed to detect malware, viruses, trojans, and other threats within files uploaded to your web server.
It works by scanning the files' signatures and metadata and comparing them against an extensive database of known threats. When a threat is detected, phpMussel can block the file upload, quarantine the file, or log the incident.
As an open source tool, phpMussel benefits from regular definition and core updates contributed by developers and the security community. It also supports plug-ins and add-ons to extend its functionality.
Some key features include:
- Scans files during the upload process using signatures, heuristics checks, metadata analysis
- Automatically receives regular definition and core updates
- Blacklists and whitelists for advanced control
- Pluggable system supports plugins and addons
- Lightning fast performance with small resource footprint
With robust detection capabilities and active development community behind it, phpMussel is a great open source choice to protect any PHP/MySQL driven site from malware and infected file uploads.