Re: Software to queue up av/as apps to run on files, also queue of scanning?

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:59:15 -0000, "Ant" <not@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"MitchellWmA" wrote:

Is there anything out there to facilitate 2 things re anti-virus and
anti-spyware, etc., software:

This is the kind of custom operation you need to set up yourself.

1) that will access as many security apps as we need via context
menu?

i.e., that we can assign to the context menu so that when invoked,
will run in sequence whatever anti-virus, etc., apps we wish to run on
that file?

Involves editing the registry. Usual warings apply.

Create a new key here, e.g. scan:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\scan

Set the default value for this key to be your context menu text,
e.g: Scan for viruses.

Create another key under that one called command:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\scan\command

Set the default value for this key to be the name of a script or
batch file which will run the apps, e.g:
"c:\somedirectory\virscan.bat" "%1"

The quote marks are required and "%1" will be used to pass the file
name to the batch file and thence the apps. Your batch file will
contain something like this:

progname1 %1
progname2 %1
pause

The prognames are the names of your AV apps and obviously they must
be capable of accepting filenames as parameters. Check the docs for
any other params you might want and the position of the filename,
e.g. you might have to do:

progname1 -some_value %1

If you expect console output, make the scrollback buffer in the
default command prompt window large enough to view it. If your apps
are GUI and you expect no useful console output remove the pause.

If you don't want a batch file and console window you will probably
have to learn about scripts and the Windows Scripting Host.

2) Same app or another, doesn't matter, that will line up of security
programs with which to scan our entire systems. So at a certain
scheduled time it'll come up and perhaps just prompt one before doing
a system scan then will go through each app we assign overnight doing
an AVG av scan, then all the rest?

See help for the 'at' command.

Thanks. I think I can do all this. Will definitely give it a try.
Never thought of this type of solution. Pretty cool. :)
.

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