Scanning from the command line

[WilliamP]

How do you go about scanning from the command line and what would be the reason to do it?

[Paul Wilders]

William,

Have a look at this thread (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=9776;start=0) from Paolo Monti/Eset.

regards.

paul

[WilliamP]

Paul, I'm new to NOD and I'm not real computer savy. I love NOD32 and want to learn how to make the most of it. I don't know how to scan from the command lie. I would appreciate guidance.

[Paul Wilders]

William,

No problem! Please read the thread I referred to closely, and ask about issues you don't understand ;)

regards.

paul

[WilliamP]

How do you actually get to the command line. Why is scanning from the command line necessary?

[Paul Wilders]

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How do you actually get to the command line. Why is scanning from the command line necessary?
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William,

As Paolo suggested in his reply in the thread I referred to: after reading the thread carefully - answers to your questions are provided - , feel free to ask questions over on that particular thread. FYI: NOD32 V2 will do just fine without command line scanning on average.

regards.

paul

[Alaska]

I know this may be off topic but for my enlightenment the 'Scan Manually By Command Line Execution' spoken of in the NOD32 Help file under 'On-Demand Scanner' is accessed from a DOS prompt and would only be necessary if a virus messed up Windows so bad that Windows couldn't be loaded. Of course, NOD32 will not let this happen :), so we (the average user) do not need it.

The 'The parameters and their effects:' list in the help file are for testers and programmers and not someone like me an average user.

Is all of the above correct? Thank you in advance.

[WilliamP]

Thank you for the input. It doesn't seem like anyone wanted to explain what needed to be done.

[Paul Wilders]

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Thank you for the input. It doesn't seem like anyone wanted to explain what needed to be done.
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William,

Paolo did explain in great extend - as many who joined/did read the thread mentioned will approve of. No offense in any way: but in case you have questions, post them in the thread mentioned ;)

regards.

paul

[Alaska]

I'm an average user of program software WilliamP, most of these people are way ahead of me.
Actually some of the items in 'The parameters and their effects:' list are needed to access NOD32 scanning from a DOS prompt. But I have no need to use it.

Apology if this was off topic and in the wrong place :).

[WilliamP]

Paul, I did ask questions on that post and was told to read it carefully. I don't want to upset anyone, I'm just interested in learning as much as I can and getting the most out of NOD as I can.

[Paul Wilders]

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Paul, I did ask questions on that post and was told to read it carefully. I don't want to upset anyone, I'm just interested in learning as much as I can and getting the most out of NOD as I can.
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That's just OK, William ;) Be assured, you don't upset anyone. In essence, you don't need the command lines to have a fine and reliable running NOD32. In case you want "more", there's no way around getting some more basical knowledge. Paolo has provided a nice add on plus explanation. Feel free to continue over on the relevant thread.

regards.

paul

[WilliamP]

Thank you for your help.

[DolfTraanberg]

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.... and would only be necessary if a virus messed up Windows so bad that Windows couldn't be loaded.
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I don't think that's true. There are a more reasons to use this feature, like in batchfiles.
Also a number of mailservers use it for scanning incoming and outgoing mail.
Dolf

[Alaska]

-{ Quote: " quoting: Dollefie link=board=39;threadid=10885;start=0#msg70846 date=1057020576]
-{ Quote: " quoting: Alaska link=board=39;threadid=10885;start=0#msg70819 date=1057014009]
.... and would only be necessary if a virus messed up Windows so bad that Windows couldn't be loaded.
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I don't think that's true. There are a more reasons to use this feature, like in batchfiles.
Also a number of mailservers use it for scanning incoming and outgoing mail.
Dolf
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Thank your for the correction. :)

[indodude]

William,

if you have not yet done so go to the Eset web site and download the manual, the file is Nod32Man.pdf. In there you find a detailed description of command line switches that can be used with Nod32.exe when running the program from the command line (= DOS prompt) outside the windows environment.

You will probably never need to do a scan from the DOS prompt, but you may wish to set up your download manager to do a scan of every downloaded file. In addition to the path\filename you can add command line switches (sometimes called parameters, or options) as instructions to Nod32 about what to scan, how, etc. My setup is: /all /heurdeep /ah /pack+ /arch+ /prompt /quit-. Explanations are in the manual.

Have fun!

indodude

[WilliamP]

I had downloaded the User Manual but after getting version 2 through it out. I did go back and copy pages 50 -61 covering scanning DOS.