How Do I Setup EAV 4 To Scan Incoming Files On Msn Messenger?

[budachild]

How do I setup EAV 4 to scan incoming files on Windows Live Messenger [Formerly Msn Messenger - Same software different name now]? I haven't been able to find any help online. The official ESET website has a support article about it that is very outdated here:

http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page...=1241967954095

According to what they mention on the above ESET url link, your files can be scanned if you use their steps. I tried doing so and yes I saw some sort of command window pop up and close on it's own. But it just opened and closed in an instant. I couldn't even tell what it was doing... Or if it had actually scanned the incoming file someone sent me. According to the same steps from ESET it's supposed to create a log in your programs folder, and I saw NONE! Like I said the steps they ask you to take above are old and probably don't apply to ESET AV 4 which is what I use...



Below are the steps BLACKSPEAR mentioned in his forum STICKY for his EAV 3 tutorial:

MESSENGER FILE TRANSFER SCAN SETTINGS

MSN Messenger / Windows Live Messenger files can be scanned upon transfer; please take the following steps:

1. Login to Messenger.

2. Click on Tools.

3. Click on Options.

4. Click on “File Transfer”.

5. Place a tick in “Scan files for viruses using:”.

6. Paste the following (including the quotation marks):

"C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ecls.exe" /adv-heur /adware /arch /auto /boots /files /mail /no-log-all /pattern /quarantine /rtp /sfx /subdir /unsafe /unwanted

7. Click on “Apply”.

8. Click on “OK”.



SWITCHES

As far as I can tell the following makes use of the most available switches for an aggressive scan using commandline switches:

C:\ /adv-heur /adware /arch /auto /boots /files /mail /no-log-all /pattern /quarantine /rtp /sfx /subdir /unsafe /unwanted


/adv-heur
/adware
/arch
/auto
/boots
/files
/mail
/no-log-all
/pattern
/quarantine
/rtp
/sfx
/subdir
/unsafe
/unwanted


Options
/base-dir=FOLDER = load modules from FOLDER
/quar-dir=FOLDER = QUARANTINE folder
/exclude=FOLDER = exclude FOLDER from scanning
/subdir = scan subfolders (default)
/no-subdir = do not scan subfolders
/max-subdir-level=LEVEL = subfolder maximum nesting LEVEL (default 0 = unlimited)
/symlink = follow symbolic links (default)
/no-symlink = skip symbolic links
/log-file=FILE = log output to FILE
/log-rewrite = overwrite output file (defau lt - append)
/log-all = also log clean files
/no-log-all = do not log clean files (default)
/aind = show activity indicator
/auto = scan and automatically clean all local disks

Scanner options
/files = scan files (default)
; /no-files = do not scan files
/boots = scan boot sectors (default)
/no-boots = do not scan boot sectors
/arch = scan archives (default)
/no-arch = do not scan archives
/max-archive-level=LEVEL = maximum archive nesting LEVEL (default 0 = unlimited)
/scan-timeout=LIMIT = scan archives for LIMIT seconds at maximum
/max-arch-size=SIZE = scan only the first SIZE bytes in archives (default 0 = unlimited)
/mail = scan email files
/no-mail = do not scan email files
/sfx = scan self-extracting archives
/no-sfx = do not scan self-extracting archives
/rtp = scan runtime packers
/no-rtp = do not scan runtime packers
/adware = scan for Adware/Spyware/Riskware
/no-adware = do not scan for Adware/Spyware/Riskware
/unsafe = scan for potentially unsafe applications
/no-unsafe = do not scan for potentially unsafe applications
/unwanted = scan for potentially unwanted applications
/no-unwanted = do not scan for potentially unwanted applications
/pattern = use signatures
/no-pattern = do not use signatures
/heur = enable heuristics
/no-heur = disable heuristics
/adv-heur = enable Advanced heuristics
/no-adv-heur = disable Advanced heuristics
/ext=EXTENSIONS = scan only EXTENSIONS delimited by colon
/ext-exclude=EXTENSIONS = exclude EXTENSIONS delimited by colon from scanning
/action=ACTION = perform ACTION on infected objects. Available actions: none, clean, prompt
/quarantine = copy infected files to Quarantine (supplements ACTION)
/no-quarantine = do not copy infected files to Quarantine

General options
/help = show help and quit
/version = show version information and quit

Can someone please help? I used to use AVG and it was awesome! It had a nice little GUI that would pop up and scan incoming files easily. I'm starting to think that ESET is a bit too complicated... I mean come on! Some little black command window popping up? That just looks dum and unprofessional. I'd like to see something come up and scan like when you right click an item and use the ESET scan feature in your context menu.


Thanks for your help!

[DesertRat]

Originally Posted by budachild

How do I setup EAV 4 to scan incoming files on Windows Live Messenger [Formerly Msn Messenger - Same software different name now]?...

Those switches overly complicate things, don't they? The following line works like the right-click context menu scan for me.

"C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ecls.exe" /clean-mode=strict /quarantine

Just those two switches, no place holders. It won't give you one thing you ask for - a nice, pop-up GUI. It's just short, simple, sweet, and to the point.

Suit yourself by opening a command prompt and running "C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ecls.exe" /help

[nanana1]

Will including this command switch block Windows Live Messenger from logging in ?

[siljaline]

Perhaps this solution will help >
http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page...=1236673870053

[siljaline]

Originally Posted by nanana1

Will including this command switch block Windows Live Messenger from logging in ?

No, assuming you use the prescribed ESET Solution >
http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN549

[nanana1]

Originally Posted by siljaline

No, assuming you use the prescribed ESET Solution >
http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN549

This prescribed ESET KB solution is the cause of my issue.

Thanks to DesertRat for his correct command input switch :
"C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ecls.exe" /clean-mode=strict /quarantine


See my other thread here ---> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showp...unt=9:lurking:

[siljaline]

Originally Posted by nanana1

This prescribed ESET KB solution is the cause of my issue.

Thanks to DesertRat for his correct command input switch :
"C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ecls.exe" /clean-mode=strict /quarantine


See my other thread here ---> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showp...unt=9:lurking:

If the alternate command switch solves your issue with WLM, that's great