Catch Infected Files Before Anyone Opens Them
Files.com scans every inbound file for malware the moment it arrives, before any person can open it, download it, or edit it, and before any automation acts on it. Clean files move on automatically. Anything malicious or suspicious is pulled into quarantine. You can’t control the people sending you files, but you can control what makes it into your environment.
Scanning Is Built In, Not Bolted On
Protecting downstream systems from outside files used to mean standing up a separate scanning vendor, writing a Lambda pipeline, or parking an antivirus appliance in front of your file-transfer layer. Files.com scans at the point of ingestion as part of the platform itself. There is nothing extra to wire up and nothing to keep running on the side, so you get this protection without adding a tool to maintain.
The result is a three-way verdict of Clean, Malicious, or Suspicious, and the platform acts on it for you. Clean files continue to their destination and trigger any automation waiting on them. Flagged files are quarantined and every result lands in the audit log.
How A File Gets Cleared Or Caught
Every inbound file runs the same path, from any protocol, before it ever reaches a person or a workflow.
Scanned The Moment It Arrives
Every inbound file is scanned as it is received, before any person can open, download, or edit it, and before any automation acts on it. A pending indicator shows in the destination folder so people can see a file landed but is still being checked.
Clean Files Move On Automatically
A file that comes back Clean is routed straight to its destination and the workflow keeps going. There is no manual approval step, so the safe files that make up most of your traffic never wait on a human.
Threats Get Quarantined
A file flagged Malicious (known malware) or Suspicious (signs of potential malware) is pulled into a separate quarantine folder, kept apart from the clean stream so no one downloads it by accident.
You Choose Where Quarantine Lives
Point the quarantine destination wherever you want it: a Files.com folder, an S3 bucket, an Azure Blob container, or an on-premise path. Flagged files land somewhere your security team already watches, so nothing infected sits where the rest of your files live.
A Security Control For Files You Didn’t Send
The risk is rarely the files your own people create. It is the ones partners and customers send you, from machines you do not control. Scanning every inbound file protects your downstream systems from that data without trusting the sender. That is why many security teams treat it as a baseline requirement, and why having it built in helps you clear the security review.
Virus and malware scanning is an Enterprise-plan capability, opt-in and off by default, with additional usage-based charges. See what each plan includes and the current charge model on the pricing page.
Virus & Malware Scanning Questions
What teams ask about when files get scanned, which paths are covered, how it works, and what it costs.
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