Scan Scope - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.7 - FOR LINUX FILE SERVER Administrator's Manual

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As a one-time task - from the command line (see 4.2.4 on p. 29).
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According to the schedule using the cron application (see 4.2.5 on p. 29).
An anti-virus scan of the entire computer is a process that requires
considerable resources. It should be noted that when you start this
task, your computer's efficiency will be reduced: therefore we recom-
mend that no other heavy application should run at the same time. To
avoid such problems, we recommend that you scan individual selected
catalogs.

4.2.1. Scan scope

The scan scope can be roughly divided into two parts:
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scan path – the list of directories and objects to be searched for viruses;
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scan objects – types of objects to be scanned for viruses (archives, etc.)
By default all objects of all available file systems are scanned, starting with the
current directory.
To scan all file systems of the computer, you have to switch to the root
directory, or specify the scan scope at the command line as "/".
You can redefine the scan path by the following methods:
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Listing at the command line (using a space as a separator) all directories
and files to be scanned, using absolute or relative (relative to the current
directory) paths.
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List the scan paths in a text file, and specify this file to be used by using
the parameter -@<filename> in the command line. Each object in this file
should be entered on a new line, using its absolute path only.
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Restrict paths which are accepted by default (all, starting with the current
directory) or listed in the command line, by entering in the kav4fs.conf
configuration file masks of files and directories that will be excluded from
the scan scope ([scanner.options] section, settings ExcludeMask and
ExcludeDirs).
If you specified at the command line both scan paths and a text
file containing a list of the scan objects, only the paths indicated
in the file will be scanned. The paths entered at the command
line will be ignored.
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