So to answer your original question, you should be able to follow a files.insert() with a files.get(acknowledgeAbuse=false) to determine if Drive thinks your new file is a Virus (watch for the 403 abuse response).īe aware that like all Antivirus services, Google is constantly updating it's virus definitions so a file that was not detected as a virus (false negative) may be detected as a virus at a later time and a file that was wrongly detected as a virus (false positive) may no longer be detected as a virus in the future. 'Apart from thousands of porn videos, at least 25,000-30,000 links are likely sharing illegal content like malware, software, movies, games and what not.

Attempts to files.get(alt=media, acknowledgeAbuse=true) YOUR copy of the file should succeed. According to independent cyber security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, thousands of such explicit and illegal content is being circulated via Google Drive, in zipped compressed files.

(This is a nice workaround when the file is not accessible with files.get() for various reasons). Attempts to py() my file into your own Drive will succeed.Attempts to download my file with files.get(alt=media) will fail with '403: Only the owner can download abusive files.' Some versions of the scam claim that a RAT (Remote Administration Tool) has been installed on the victims machine to extract data and make pornographic video.

Here's a globally shared file named eicar.exe which is nothing more than a harmless string but which Google Drive's scan on download will detect as a virus. You can use the EICAR virus test string to understand how Drive behaves with viruses.

Google drive porn virus