Scan Scope - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.5 - FOR LINUX-FREEBSD WORKSTATION AND FILE SERVER Administrator's Manual

Using Kaspersky Anti-Virus

5.2.1. Scan scope

The scan scope can be roughly divided into two parts:
•
scan path – the list of folders and objects in which the search for viruses
will be performed;
•
scan objects – types of objects that will be scanned for viruses (archives,
etc.)
By default all objects of all available file systems will be scanned, starting with
the current folder.
In order to scan all file systems of the computer, you have to switch to
the root folder or specify the scan scope in the command line /.
You can redefine the scan path by the following methods:
•
At the startup of the component list in the command line (using a space
as a separator) folders and files with absolute or relative (relative to the
current folder) paths to them.
•
Specify the scan paths in the text file and specify this file to be used
using modifier -@<filename> in the command line. Each object in this file
shall be entered in a new line with the absolute path to it.
•
Restrict paths accepted by default (all, starting with the current folder) or
listed in the command line by entering into the kav4fs.conf configuration
file masks of files and folders that will be excluded from the scan scope
([scanner.options] section, settings ExcludeMask and ExcludeDirs).
•
Turn off the recursive scan of the folders ([scanner.options] section, the
Recursion setting or modifier -r).
•
Create an alternative configuration file and specify this file to be used
using modifier -c <filename> at the component startup.
Default scan objects are specified in the kav4fs.conf configuration file
([scanner.options] section) and they can be redefined.
•
directly in this file;
•
using command line modifiers at the component startup;
•
by using an alternative configuration file.
If you specified in the command line both the scan path and the
text file with the list of the scan objects, the area indicated in the
file will be scanned. The path entered in the command line will
be ignored.
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