node-clam-engine 

Clam Engine provides robust native bindings to the clamav library. It allows you to scan files for viruses in-process, without requiring a running instance of clamd, or imposing the startup time of the clamscan command.

Installation

$3

Clam Engine requires libclamav to be present.

- Ubuntu: apt-get install libclamav-dev clamav-freshclam
- Homebew (OS X): brew install clamav

$3

Just run npm install clam-engine. Clam Engine supports Node.js 0.10, 0.11 and 0.12 as well as io.js. If something doesn't work for you using one of those runtimes, please file a bug.

Usage

$3

In order for Clam Engine to work, you need to update the clamav virus signatures by running the freshclam command. You will need to configure it firsy.

$3

var clam = require('clam-engine');

clam.createEngine(function (err, engine) {
if (err) {
return console.log('Error', err);
}
engine.scanFile('eicar.com', function (err, virus) {
if (err) {
return console.log('Error', err);
}
if (virus) {
return console.log('Virus', virus);
}
console.log('Clean');
});
});

$3

- #### clam.createEngine(cb)
Creates and initialises a new engine. The callback is called with (err, engine).

- #### engine.version
Property that contains the version of the underlying clamav engine.

- #### engine.signatures
Propery that indicates the number of signatures loaded.

- #### engine.scanFile(filename, cb)
Scans a file for a virus. The callback is called with (err, virus). virus is null if the file is clean.