Hello gang,
I must say this is a very resourceful place that I'm glad to have found!
I'm a newbie to security/antivirus area(aside from being able to use one of course) and as a school project I need to create a program that will disinfect one specific virus using a simple pattern matching technique. I ran into the open source ClamAV and have been reading about how to create signature files and add it to its db and it doesn't seem too bad even for a newbie like myself.
But what I would like to be able to do is develop a standalone utility that will scan for a specific virus (just one strand for simplicity) and disinfect/remove it. There are tons of these type of utilities out there but I couldn't find any decent tutorial/documentation that could help me. I would appreciate any references or advises you may throw at me.

Thanks in advance!
Nick