User Guide

Administrator’s Guide 111
Using VirusScan Command-line Options
/FREQUENCY < n > On-demand
scanning only
Do not scan <n> hours after the previous scan
operation.
In environments where the risk of viral infection is
very low, use this option to prevent unnecessary
scan operations.
Note that the greater the scan frequency, the
greater your protection against infection.
/HELP or /? None Displays a list of VirusScan scanner command-line
options, each with a brief description.
/IGNORE
<drive(s)> On-access
scanning only
Does not check any files loaded from the specified
drive(s).
/LOAD
<filename> On-demand
scanning only
Load scanning options from the named file.
Use this option to perform a scan you’ve already
configured by loading custom settings saved in an
ASCII-formatted file.
/LOCK Not available
in
low-memory
environments
With this /LOCK option enabled, VirusScan will
halt and lock your system if it finds a virus.
/LOCK is appropriate in highly vulnerable network
environments, such as open-use computer labs.
McAfee VirusScan recommends using /LOCK with
the /CONTACTFILE option to tell users what to do
or whom to contact if VirusScan locks the system.
/MANALYZE On-demand
scanning only
Extended
memory
required
Sets the scanner’s heuristic scanning features to
target macro viruses only.
/PANALYZE targets program viruses only.
/ANALYZE targets both program and macro
viruses.
/MANY On-demand
scanning only
Scans multiple disks consecutively in a single
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.
/MAXFILESIZE
<xxx.x>
On-demand
scanning only
Scan only files no larger than <xxx.x> megabytes.
/MEMEXCL On-demand
scanning only
Not available
for Windows
Excludes the memory address A0000:0000 from
scanning.
Table C-1. VirusScan command-line scanner options