Free A-squared Command Line Scanner 2.0

[Chubb]

Free A-squared Command Line Scanner 2.0

Reference from the A-Squared Forum:

http://forum.emsisoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=1324

[dan_maran]

download won't work for me, it keeps kicking me back to the overall downloads page.

"Not a valid archive. Try downloading again" is what you get when you "Save As"

[Andreas Haak]

You tried to download the file while Christian uploaded an updated version. Try again. It should be working now :).

[dan_maran]

Thanks

[Badcompany]

hello Forum,
Can this scanner be used with A-Squared free, or is it to replace it.
BC.

[Chubb]

-{ Quote: "hello Forum,
Can this scanner be used with A-Squared free, or is it to replace it.
BC." }-

Hi Badcompany,

A-Squared Free is a Windows GUI program. A-squared Command Line Scanner is a DOS scanner with no Windows GUI and you have to operate in the DOS prompt.

In summary,

A-Squared Free 2.0 is for Windows
A-squared Command Line Scanner 2.0 is for DOS

[Badcompany]

-{ Quote: "Hi Badcompany,

A-Squared Free is a Windows GUI program. A-squared Command Line Scanner is a DOS scanner with no Windows GUI and you have to operate in the DOS prompt.

In summary,

A-Squared Free 2.0 is for Windows
A-squared Command Line Scanner 2.0 is for DOS" }-
Hi Chubb,
Do Anti-virus programs include a DOS scanner.What does DOS stand for.
Bc.

[Andreas Haak]

-{ Quote: "A-Squared Free 2.0 is for Windows
A-squared Command Line Scanner 2.0 is for DOS" }-

Wrong. The Command Line Scanner is a console version of a-squared. You can use it from a Win32 console. It won't work with DOS.

Regarding you question Badcompany:
DOS stands for Disk Operating System. Its more or less the predecessor of the Windows operating system.

You can use the command line scanner and the a-squared free together. In fact the command line scanner is part of a-squared free and a-squared anti-malware and was installed via online update today.

[Badcompany]

-{ Quote: "Wrong. The Command Line Scanner is a console version of a-squared. You can use it from a Win32 console. It won't work with DOS.

Regarding you question Badcompany:
DOS stands for Disk Operating System. Its more or less the predecessor of the Windows operating system.

You can use the command line scanner and the a-squared free together. In fact the command line scanner is part of a-squared free and a-squared anti-malware and was installed via online update today." }-
Hi Andreas,
Thanks for your reply, is the new A-Squared Anti-malware program compaible with IE 7.

[JerryM]

How does this differ from the regular a-squared? I don't understand what a command line scanner is or why you would need/want one.

Thanks for the help.
Jerry

[dan_maran]

As a backup that doesn't need to be installed, can be run from USB drives, CD's, Network shares(?). So it is extremely handy for comuter repair guru's, network admins and people like me who hate installing programs. :)

[Andreas Haak]

@Badcompany:
There are no problems we are aware of.

@Jerry:
The console scanner and the GUI scanner are using exactly the same engine version and signatures. Therefore the scan performance is the same.

What are they used for? Quite easy: They are used to automate things. Instead of clicking options in a window and answering questions when a certain event occurs you could just do a "a2cmd c:\windows\ /m /t /c /h /r /a /n /q" and all is done without any further user interaction. Console applications produce only text output. So its extremly easy to take the results of a scan and parse them using a script. Online scanners like VirusTotal or Jotti are working this way. Console applications don't need a setup. Just copy over the files to a USB stick and run them whereever you want. This makes them perfect for rescue medias for example. Just try it yourself or just read the readme file in your a-squared directory. I guess you will soon come up with more ideas where a console based scanner is just the better way to do things ;).

[MICRO]

Andreas,

My apologies for butting in on this thread but will the CLS help to overcome the missing 'right click' ability (context menu) in 98se of the previous A2 free ?
I think many thousands miss that ability to instantly scan a folder.

TIA,

Kind Regards.

[JerryM]

likuidkewl and Andreas,

Thanks for the replies. I can see the value of the command line scanner.

Best,
Jerry

[Andreas Haak]

-{ Quote: "Andreas,

My apologies for butting in on this thread but will the CLS help to overcome the missing 'right click' ability (context menu) in 98se of the previous A2 free ?
I think many thousands miss that ability to instantly scan a folder." }-

Hmmm ... as far as I remember the context menu is working with Windows NT based system as well as with Windows 9x systems. But I can check it for you.

[gerardwil]

Hi,

Installed A2CLS on a USB stick. Ran the update and scanned. Perfect!!

Gerard

[Chubb]

-{ Quote: "Wrong. The Command Line Scanner is a console version of a-squared. You can use it from a Win32 console. It won't work with DOS.

Regarding you question Badcompany:
DOS stands for Disk Operating System. Its more or less the predecessor of the Windows operating system.

You can use the command line scanner and the a-squared free together. In fact the command line scanner is part of a-squared free and a-squared anti-malware and was installed via online update today." }-

Thanks Andreas Haak for the correction. I have been using the wrong wording..:P

[roamer_1]

Andreas Haak,

Just a quick note to thank you. You gave word a year ago that you were cookin' up a cmdline scanner, and I take note that you keep your word.

It has been a long time since I had a cmdline trojan tool in my kit, so I can't wait to play with this one! And it has auto-update built in too!

thanks again

Bruce

[shek]

-{ Quote: " you could just do a "a2cmd c:\windows\ /m /t /c /h /r /a /n /q" and all is done without any further user interaction. Console applications produce only text output. " }-

I entered the same command, but it didn't work. The help message showed up immediately. If I tried " a2cmd c:\windows\ ", it worked and a2 started to scan. Could anyone help me out?

shek

[shek]

it works now after updating to latest version and seems like a bug for old version.

Great job, emsisoft. I really like the built-in update function.

shek