Installed ClamWin AntiVir today and must say it looks very good.
But its necessary for me to be able to check for viruses through clamscan.exe because I'm running it on a server which should make emails and attachments virus-free. (Yeah, added already a ClamWin logo on my webbased mail service site )

I moved the database files into the clamwin directory because it dont wanted to work in command promt with a path like "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\...".

Following Problem:
When opening command line prompt and typing in
C:\Programme\ClamWin\bin\clamscan.exe C:\testfile.txt --database=C:\Programme\ClamWin\clamwin\db
it works very well and checks that testfile.txt is clean.

But when I try to execute that command with PHP like:

it returns just an "empty" report which only conatains that:

Tried to fix that over more hours without result.

What I also tried was to put the Command into a *.bat file and to start the bat file through PHP. That returned also an "empty" report.

The same problem occures when I try to configure https://www.sssolutions.net/mf/ Server Side Solutions - Mailfilter Pro (an addon to a mail server) with ClamWin.

Hope there is a reason for this.
Thanks.

try this syntax:
<?php system ("\"C:\\Programme\\ClamWin\\bin\\clamscan.exe\" 'C:\\testfile.txt' --database='C:\\Programme\\ClamWin\\clamwin\db'"); ?>

with \" or ' quotes you can have spaces inside the path

(I think \t is a reserved sequence for TAB in PHP and that explains why it didn't scan the file)

Thanks for the fast response.
Thats one of the things I have tried already, by replacing all backslashes with chr(92) so i dont have to escape them.
But there must be a difference between the execution with system and the command line prompt.

When opening a .bat file through system-function of PHP I dont have to escape any chars.

So for example the content of test.bat is:


and the System command is:
system "D:\\test.bat";
(why do i get a "forbidden" screen when i type in some php code? )

it returns the empty result. But if I open the bat file directly it shows up that it was scanned successfuly.

Maybe some screenshots can help:
https://lukydeluxe.org/gfx/scr1.gif 1 | https://lukydeluxe.org/gfx/scr2.gif 2

this string
<?php system ("\"C:\\Programme\\ClamWin\\bin\\clamscan.exe\" 'C:\\testfile.txt' --database='C:\\Programme\\ClamWin\\clamwin\db'"); ?>
works here okay

Hi! Tried this String on 3 other machines with the same result, so tried to make a process connection and that method works:

(Too much to show here, so click https://lukydeluxe.org/Projekte/clamwin.php THIS)

Thanks for support! Maybe its a permission failure with system ()