What is a good command line antivirus scanner for Windows 10 x64?

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Re: Antivirus
By: Phoenyx to All on Tue Nov 29 2016 01:50 am

What is a good command line antivirus scanner for Windows 10 x64?

without googling, I would just about say there is'nt a commandline scanner for 10, considering they hav eall but just about tried to do away with your run of the mill cmd or command, and have went with implementing a bash shell (ubuntu), I know it's still there but you really have to dig for it :( I was loving 10 after I upgraged to the anniversay edition, at first it would crash about every 3 days on my laptop, then I upgraded to the anniversary edition, No problems whatsoever for a month or so, then boom, died.. said my hdd was failing, re-installed, gave it another chance, it did the same thing a couple weeks later, and it actually SOUNDED like my hdd was failing too.. then put debian on here, hdd has made no irregular noises whatsoever and debian has never reported any issues with the hdd.. I don't get it, maybe they had driver issues in win or something.. I know this went way around your question, but I was actually beginning to love win10, was using virtual machines for winxp and dos, and had a true linux box (well true as you could get running under windows) but the crashes I could'nt handle..

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Re: Antivirus
By: kk4qbn to Phoenyx on Tue Nov 29 2016 06:49:50

What is a good command line antivirus scanner for Windows 10 x64?

without googling, I would just about say there is'nt a commandline scanner for 10, considering they hav eall but just about tried to do away with your run of the mill cmd or command, and have went with implementing a

AVG has a command-line scanner, and I believe AVG is still available.. I know AVG has a commdn-line scanner because I use it in my upload processor for my BBS.

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Re: Antivirus
By: Phoenyx to All on Tue Nov 29 2016 01:50:51

What is a good command line antivirus scanner for Windows 10 x64?

AVG should have one:
http://www.avg.com/us-en/homepage
I know AVG has one, at least in previous versions, because I use AVG's command-line scanner with my upload processor on my BBS. I use a different anti-virus on my Win10 x64 system, but I imagine it should still work the same on Win10 x64. The executable is C:\Program Files\AVG\Av\avgscanx.exe. You can use a command like this to scan files:
"C:\Program Files\AVG\Av\avgscanx.exe" /SCAN=*.*

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Re: Antivirus
By: Nightfox to kk4qbn on Tue Nov 29 2016 07:06 am

AVG has a command-line scanner, and I believe AVG is still available.. I know AVG has a commdn-line scanner because I use it in my upload processor for my BBS.

Thats cool, and with a quick google of that, was able to find a lot of useful info for it, new one on me :)

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On 2016-11-30 12:53 AM, kk4qbn wrote:

Re: Antivirus
By: Nightfox to kk4qbn on Tue Nov 29 2016 07:06 am

AVG has a command-line scanner, and I believe AVG is still available.. I know AVG has a commdn-line scanner because I use it in my upload processor
for my BBS.

Thats cool, and with a quick google of that, was able to find a lot of useful info for it, new one on me :)

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What about using ClamAV? It's open-source and has a command-line scanner.

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Re: Re: Antivirus
By: Deavmi to kk4qbn on Wed Nov 30 2016 09:42 am

What about using ClamAV? It's open-source and has a command-line scanner.

I need to take a look at it, my old box does'nt like AVG too well at all..

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Re: Re: Antivirus
By: Deavmi to kk4qbn on Wed Nov 30 2016 09:42 am

What about using ClamAV? It's open-source and has a command-line scanner.

I need to take a look at it, my old box does'nt like AVG too well at all..

I use ClamAV along with Nightfox's Digital Distortion Upload Processor. It works rather well for any uploads through the Terminal interface, but some stuff slipped by when someone uploaded malicious files as the guest user via FTP. I added Panda free Antivirus as an On-Access scanner and it seems to be working well and not bogging down the machine. ClamAV has caught stuff and stopped it (me testing it more than anything else), and Panda Free AV has stopped a few threats via FTP.

I've got this running on a single core P4, running Win XP (32-bit).

ClamAV download:
http://www.clamav.net/downloads#otherversions

You need to run a program that comes with ClamAV called FreshClam to get the latest Virus Definitions, I run it Nightly on a schedule.

my scan command using DD Upload Processor looks like this: scanCmd=C:\Path\to\ClamAV\clamscan.exe --log=c:\Path\to\ClamAV\scan.log --remove -r --verbose %FILESPEC%

Panda Free Antivirus: http://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/homeusers/solutions/free-antivirus/
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On 2016-12-01 06:49 AM, KenDB3 wrote:

Re: Re: Antivirus
By: Deavmi to kk4qbn on Wed Nov 30 2016 09:42 am

What about using ClamAV? It's open-source and has a command-line scanner.

I need to take a look at it, my old box does'nt like AVG too well at all..

I use ClamAV along with Nightfox's Digital Distortion Upload Processor. It works rather well for any uploads through the Terminal interface, but some stuff slipped by when someone uploaded malicious files as the guest user via FTP. I added Panda free Antivirus as an On-Access scanner and it seems to be working well and not bogging down the machine. ClamAV has caught stuff and stopped it (me testing it more than anything else), and Panda Free AV has stopped a few threats via FTP.

I've got this running on a single core P4, running Win XP (32-bit).

ClamAV download:
http://www.clamav.net/downloads#otherversions

You need to run a program that comes with ClamAV called FreshClam to get the latest Virus Definitions, I run it Nightly on a schedule.

my scan command using DD Upload Processor looks like this: scanCmd=C:\Path\to\ClamAV\clamscan.exe --log=c:\Path\to\ClamAV\scan.log --remove -r --verbose %FILESPEC%

Panda Free Antivirus: http://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/homeusers/solutions/free-antivirus/
(Say no to the paid version upgrade, and then I believe it takes you to CNet for the download).

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I went with your suggestion on using clamav. Got it setup and running with DD Upload Processor

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Re: Re: Antivirus
By: KenDB3 to kk4qbn on Thu Dec 01 2016 12:49 am

I use ClamAV along with Nightfox's Digital Distortion Upload Processor. It

It seems AVG has removed their command-line virus scanner from their latest (automatic) update. So I removed AVG and installed ClamAV and set it up with my upload processor. Seems to be working.

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Re: Re: Antivirus
By: KenDB3 to kk4qbn on Thu Dec 01 2016 12:49 am

I use ClamAV along with Nightfox's Digital Distortion Upload Processor. It

It seems AVG has removed their command-line virus scanner from their latest (automatic) update. So I removed AVG and installed ClamAV and
set it up with my upload processor. Seems to be working.

One of these days I need to figure out how to do that.. ;)


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Re: Antivirus
By: Bill McGarrity to Nightfox on Sun Mar 19 2017 08:15 pm

It seems AVG has removed their command-line virus scanner from their latest (automatic) update. So I removed AVG and installed ClamAV and set it up with my upload processor. Seems to be working.

One of these days I need to figure out how to do that.. ;)

if you have a resident AV scanner it will grab the offending files when the processor deals with the archive.

i get tons of false positives when i'm moving or copying my old hpvac shit
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if you have a resident AV scanner it will grab the offending files when the processor deals with the archive.

i get tons of false positives when i'm moving or copying my old hpvac shit

But Synchronet and a resident scanner won't know anything about each other. I haven't tried that sort of setup so I'm not sure how well that would block uploads that have a virus. I think for best results you'd need to configure an upload processor in Synchronet so it would explicitly fail an upload if it detects a virus in it.

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if you have a resident AV scanner it will grab the offending files when the processor deals with the archive.

i get tons of false positives when i'm moving or copying my old hpvac shit

But Synchronet and a resident scanner won't know anything about each other. I haven't tried that sort of setup so I'm not sure how well that would block uploads that have a virus. I think for best results you'd need to configure an upload processor in Synchronet so it would explicitly fail an upload if it detects a virus in it.

Nightfox

I think I remember what would happen if a file got through that the local antivirus caught after it was transferred. Basically, SBBS would not know the file was removed, and you would have an item show up in the file base that wasn't really there. The upload scanner stops it from becoming a ghost record that I have to manually remove later on.

Nightfox, I'm glad you liked the ClamAV option, it seems to be working really well for me since I set it up.

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Re: Re: Antivirus
By: KenDB3 to Nightfox on Mon Mar 20 2017 05:49 pm

But Synchronet and a resident scanner won't know anything about each
other. I haven't tried that sort of setup so I'm not sure how well

I think I remember what would happen if a file got through that the local antivirus caught after it was transferred. Basically, SBBS would not know the file was removed, and you would have an item show up in the file base that wasn't really there. The upload scanner stops it from becoming a ghost record that I have to manually remove later on.

Yeah, I wondered if that would result in a ghost record. That isn't ideal, and I'm not sure if there's an easy way to remove all ghost records from a Synchronet filebase. You'd have to go through and make sure each file is actually there..

Nightfox, I'm glad you liked the ClamAV option, it seems to be working really well for me since I set it up.

ClamAV seems to work well enough. I'll stick with it now that AVG no longer seems to have a command-line virus scanner (and why they removed it, I don't know..).

Nightfox

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Re: Antivirus
By: Nightfox to Mro on Sun Mar 19 2017 10:46 pm

i get tons of false positives when i'm moving or copying my old hpvac shit

But Synchronet and a resident scanner won't know anything about each other. I haven't tried that sort of setup so I'm not sure how well that would block uploads that have a virus. I think for best results you'd need to configure an upload processor in Synchronet so it would explicitly fail an upload if it detects a virus in it.

with avast and avg that offending file in the archive will be removed.

i dont think people even upload nowadays, though.
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Re: Re: Antivirus
By: Nightfox to KenDB3 on Mon Mar 20 2017 04:29 pm

not know the file was removed, and you would have an item show up in the file base that wasn't really there. The upload scanner stops it from becoming a ghost record that I have to manually remove later on.

Yeah, I wondered if that would result in a ghost record. That isn't ideal, and I'm not sure if there's an easy way to remove all ghost records from a Synchronet filebase. You'd have to go through and make sure each file is actually there..

you might get a file that just hase file_id.diz or nothing else.
no big deal, really.

regarding missing files. delfiles removes offline files.
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