CSOM access to Virus Scanning Status

Question

I am connecting to a SharePoint Online tenancy and interrogating a document library using CSOM. Is it possible to determine in code whether or not the anti-malware scan (which I know runs asynchronously) has finished scanning the file from the library that I'm interested in? I know that using the old sharepoint API you could interrogate an SPFile and see the SPVirusCheckStatus, but I can't see anything similar in CSOM.

Answer 1

In the absence of a better answer, I am inspecting the value of the _VirusStatus field. If the file has been scanned it will have a value in this field.

Possible values (from the MS documentation):

• case "0": // No Virus detected
• case "1": // Virus reported by the scanner plugin but not yet determined if removal possible.
• case "2": // Virus reported by the scanner plugin which can be removed.
• case "3": // Virus successfully removed
• case "4": // Virus reported, attempted clean failed.
• case "5": // Virus reported, document should be deleted.
• case "6": // Timeout last scan.