Clamshell

Node.js based simulator for ClamD.

While developing code which typically runs on a server and interacts with ClamD, the ClamAV daemon, via 127.0.0.1:3310 I hit issues when testing the integration with ClamD. We didn't want to expose a ClamD server on the network as it has a SHUTDOWN command, which isn't great to expose, and local config would have to redirect to that server. I also develop on a system that already has a running AV that isn't Clam and didn't want to run two.

So the easy fix was to make a mocked version of ClamD for my application to talk to, which is what Clamshell is.

Currently it only has a couple of basic ClamD commands implemented as those are the only ones my application code uses. My application code also runs a test scan streaming Eicar to check ClamD is running properly, so Clamshell currently, crudely, checks for this and returns the expected result.

Requirements

Node.js

Installation and Usage

Either download this repository and run:

node clamshell.js

Or use npm and install it globally:

npm install -g clamshell

TODO

• Implement all clamd commands: http://linux.die.net/man/8/clamd
• Look at adding more options to the virus-scanner.js
• AVG backend: http://faqbay.com/faq/how-use-avg-command-line-scan
• Prompt on command line for return value?
• Support scanning of buffered data better (currently stream-server sets the scan message for every data chunk passed in)