McAfee AVDCDE-AA-AA - Active Virus Defense Suite User Manual page 168

Using the VirusScan application
Method 4: Starting the application from the command line
Follow these steps:
1. Click Start in the Windows taskbar, point to Programs, then choose
2. Type this line at the command prompt:
3. Follow the scan target with the set of configuration options, if any, that
Depending on the command-line options you choose, starting the application
this way can either run a scan operation or display the VirusScan application
window, where you can choose configuration options for a scan operation.
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MS-DOS Prompt if your computer runs Windows 95 or Windows 98. If
your computer runs Windows NT Workstation v4.0 or Windows 2000
Professional, choose Command Prompt instead.
Windows displays a command-prompt window. If you installed the
VirusScan software to its default location, change to this directory:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates
\On Demand Scanner\Scan32
scan32.exe <scan target> /<configuration options>
Here, <scan target> means any drive, directory path, or filename you
want the application to examine. Specify drives with DOS-style names
—C: or D:, for example—and give complete path names for directories
according to the conventions available for your operating system.
You may use long names on Windows NT Workstation v4.0 and
Windows 2000 Professional systems, but you must use truncated names
on Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems.
you want this scan operation to use as it runs. For a complete list of
available options, see the VirusScan Administrator's Guide.
Precede each option with a /. Although the application will allow you to
specify some options without the /, specifying others will result in an
error. You may specify any necessary parameters for your options
without special notation.