McAfee VIRUSSCAN 4.5 Administrator's Manual page 159

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Table C-1. VirusScan command-line scanner options
/LOCK
/MANALYZE
/MANY
/MAXFILESIZE
<xxx.x>
/MEMEXCL
/MOVE <dir> or *.???
/NOBEEP
Not available
With this /LOCK option enabled, VirusScan will
in
halt and lock your system if it finds a virus.
low-memory
/LOCK is appropriate in highly vulnerable network
environments
environments, such as open-use computer labs.
McAfee recommends using /LOCK with the
/CONTACTFILE option to tell users what to do or
whom to contact if VirusScan locks the system.
On-demand
Sets the scanner's heuristic scanning features to
scanning only
target macro viruses only.
Extended
/PANALYZE targets program viruses only.
memory
/ANALYZE targets both program and macro
required
viruses.
On-demand
Scans multiple disks consecutively in a single
scanning only
drive. The scanner will prompt you for each disk.
Use this option to check multiple floppy disks
quickly.
You cannot use the /MANY option if you run the
scanner from a boot disk and you have only one
floppy drive.
On-demand
Scan only files no larger than <xxx.x> megabytes.
scanning only
On-demand
Excludes the memory address A0000:0000 from
scanning only
scanning.
Not available
for Windows
On-demand
/MOVE <directory>:
scanning only
Moves all infected files found during a scan to the
specified directory, preserving drive letter and
directory structure.
This option has no effect if the Master Boot Record
or boot sector is infected, since these are not
actually files.
/MOVE*.???:
The scanner will change the extension of infected
files, but not move them. For example, using the
/MOVE*.BAD option will result in any infected files
being simply renamed with the extension .BAD but
not physically moved.
On-demand
Disables the tone that sounds whenever the
scanning only
scanner finds a virus.
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