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McAfee does provide a command line interface, but it sits at a dialog box when it's done, so it does little good if you want to run more than one, or if you would rather see the result in your email.
I was initially trying to parse the HTML dialog that McAfee puts up but ran into some technical snags (thread elsewhere). I later discovered that it creates an HTML report on disk after it finishes. I can detect that report's appearance and manage things from there.
using this program, it's simple to put together a little bat file that runs a few scans, maybe some other housekeeping, and runs from the windows scheduler.
me = StrUpper(FileRoot(IntControl(1004,0,0,0,0))) Terminate(WinExist(me),"","Only one running at a time please") BoxTitle(me) Terminate(param0 < 2, me, "needs disk letter and target emailaddr for HTML report") BoxText("Controlling McAfee ASaP scanning disk %param1%") Terminate(WinExist("VSASaP"),me,"VirusScan already running") d = "C:\Windows" If !DirExist(d) Then d = "C:\WINNT" If !DirExist(d) Then Exit pg = StrCat(d, "\myCIO\Agent\HTMLDLG.EXE") wd = StrCat(d, "\myCIO\VScan\Report\") se = StrCat(wd,"*.HTM") sx = StrCat(wd,"*.Xml") FileDelete(se) ; tidy up FileDelete(sx) If FileItemize(se) > "" Then Terminate(1,me,"cant delete past reports") pa = ' -Url="myui://ScanNow.htm" -ResDll="myScnUi.Eng" -Param="ScanObject,VT_BSTR,%param1%:\" -Caption="VSASaP %param1%"' Run(pg,pa) While 1 ; wait for the HTML report to appear TimeDelay(5) s = FileItemPath(se) If s > "" Then Break EndWhile TimeDelay(5) WinClose("VSASaP") s = ItemExtract(1,s,@TAB) ; filename of HTML report b = FileGet(s) c = StrIndex(b,"Files infected:",1,0) Terminate(c==0,me,"Cant read report") c = StrIndex(b,">",c+1,0) c = StrIndex(b,">",c+1,0) d = StrIndex(b,"<",c,0) e = StrSub(b,c+1,d-c-1) ; extract the number of infected files If e != "0" ; substitute your favorite command line emailer here Run("wbm.exe",StrCat(param2, " +H", s, " Virus_Scan_", param1)) EndIf Exit
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File Created: 2005:02:18:12:21:04
Last Updated: 2005:02:18:12:21:04