10AUTOMATING CLAMAV
ClamAV is an open source antivirus solution that is used primarily for scanning emails and attachments on email servers to identify potential viruses before they reach and infect computers on the network. But that certainly isn’t its only use case. In this chapter, we’ll use ClamAV to create an automated virus scanner that we can use to scan files for malware and to identify viruses with the help of ClamAV’s database.
You’ll learn to automate ClamAV in a couple of ways. One is to interface with libclamav, the native library that drives ClamAV’s command line utilities such as clamscan, a file scanner you may be familiar with. ...
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