-------------------------------------------------------------------------- pyclamav - a quick hack to use libclamav with python author : Alexandre Norman - 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intallation =========== These are generic installation instructions. You need to have clamav and libclamav v0.80 installed with clamav.h header file You also need to have python installed The simpliest way to compile this package is: 1. Run 'python setup.py build' 2. As root run 'python setup.py install' 3. It should be done. Usage ===== From python : Python 2.3.3 (#1, Mar 21 2004, 00:29:15) [GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pyclamav >>> ret=pyclamav.scanfile('/tmp/virus') >>> print ret (1, 'Worm.Sober.G') >>> ret=pyclamav.scanthis("Buffer to test blalblabla...") >>> print ret (0, '') >>> print pyclamav.get_numsig() 25474 Return value is a tupple (integer, string) where integer = 1 : if a virus was found, string then contains the name of the virus = 0 : no virus found, string is empty If anything went wrong, an exception ValueError is raised. String contains the error string (see clamav.h ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------