How can one modify ClamSentinel to work say with the BitDefender FREE database or AVZ? OR is this question pushing the topic into some legal issues regarding intellectual properties? I ask before the possible poop hits a legal fan. Thanks.

Dave

PS: alch, hats off to you.

Clam Sentinel is a separate project from ClamWin. I will pass this on to Andrea Russo, the developer. The Sentinel web site is at https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamsentinel/ on the web.

Regards,

Thanks, ClamSentinel seems to be a very variable app. I've got it running the AVZ and it's very light, but now for the BitDefender database OR system crash. Hopefully these won't occur at the same time.

Dave

You might contact Andrea Russo, the Clam Sentinel developer and tell him your results. He will be interested.

Regards,

Hi Dave,

ClamSentinel is realized for to work with ClamWin but theorically all AV scanners that have a module that works by the command shell (MSDos prompt) can works with some modifies.

Into the new test version 1.13 you can find a new unit UClamWinScanner.pas where there are all the routines that are the interface between ClamWin and Clam Sentinel (the dos call and the routine that parse the response for to detect if a virus has been found):

https://clamsentinel.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clamsentinel/ClamSentinel/UClamWinScanner.pas

if you change this module you can interface Clam Sentinel with another AV.
Clam Sentinel is developed with Delphi (and works from Delphi 4 and more).

About BitDefender via Command Prompt you can find some informations here:

https://www.bitdefender.com/KB151-en--Virus-scanning-from-command-prompt.html

But into the BitDefender's license you can read:

"You may not sub-license, rent, sell, lease or share the BitDefender license. You may not reverse engineer, recompile, disassemble, create derivative works, modify, translate, or make any attempt to discover the source code for BitDefender."

So if you modify Clam Sentinel for to call bdc.exe you make a "derivative works" against the license.

bye,
aru

aru, my plan is to tinker with your ClamSentinel exactly as you have described -- possibly Win 9x/ME/2000 systems only. It may be easier to rewrite with your permission a simple BASIC file which incorporates the spirit of your ClamSentinel. Hope to keep you posted. Much thanks.

Dave