Problem: antivirus scanning can't be disabled

[sevein]

Expected behaviour
The user should be able to disable antivirus scanning. A good start could be to have a single toggle in processing configuration. Further development could consider controlling it via FPR.

Current behaviour
There are five places in the workflow where antivirus scanning happens unavoidably.

• Scan for viruses in metadata,
• Scan for viruses in submission documentation,
• Scan for viruses on extracted files,
• Scan for viruses (right after you skip quarantine), and
• Scan for viruses (right after email attachment extraction).

Related:

• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/archivematica/3JZbi315ezk/anKshJNiCO4J
• Problem: quarantine delay is not reliable artefactual/archivematica#598
• Problem: Scan for viruses not being triggered after remove from quarantine #691

Your environment (version of Archivematica, OS version, etc)
All versions released to this day.

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[sromkey]

I agree that just being able to turn all five places with one toggle is a good first iteration and in fact might cover the vast majority of use cases... lots of folks do virus scanning in some manner before content hits the digital preservation system and they won't be concerned about whether it's on/off for submission docs, etc.

[sevein]

Sebastian from Bodleian has been working on a solution adding new decision points on each antivirus scanning workflow link. In the Dashboard, a single decision point is shown but when enabled it translated into five pre-configured choices in the XML document. See https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/1687/files for more details.

[sromkey]

Just tested- straight forward change from the user's point of view, and the METS looks correct too (e.g. no virus scanning events when turned off). Thank you @Slange-Mhath!