Uploading Word Documents

[joedub]

Hello,

I'm working on a system that is going to require users to be able to upload word documents.

Are there any other considerations i should be taking into account here rather than just problems with viruses within the file?

Also i have no idea how to virus scan files live on a server, any advice is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[jatar_k]

I usually do a textarea or some other type of input as opposed to allowing users to upload possibly infected files.

It really depends on what are you doing with it afterwards, are you just going to reserve them or are you actually going to parse through them?

I prefer nice clean text input/files that are easy to handle.