Help with User Button (CTB1) to scan with my virus checker

[trusted]

Hello this is my first time on these forums so please be gentle with me.
I have been playing around with a User Button trying to get it to scan selected files or folders with my ant-virus software.
I have set the On click: to read <openwith "D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe">.
However this just gives a "Invalid Parameter" warning.

Can some kind person please help?
Best regards,
Alan.

[zer0]

Hello and welcome to XYplorer forums!

If I understand correctly, you have the following as the code for 'Click' event of the left mouse button:

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openwith "D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe"

It's a logical approach, but not every program would support such direct methodology. A quick Google search revealed this Avira Knowledge Base article: http://www.avira.com/en/support/kbdetails.php?id=229.
Stemming from information in that article, I'd think that the correct code for your CTB would be:

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openwith """D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe""  /PATH="<items>""; 

As I don't use Avira, you'd have to check the correctness yourself. My only concern is whether <items> in quotes would get resolved to what it should get resolved while still being in quotes as per Avira's requirement. Over to you

[serendipity]

Hello this is my first time on these forums so please be gentle with me.
I have been playing around with a User Button trying to get it to scan selected files or folders with my ant-virus software.
I have set the On click: to read <openwith "D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe">.
However this just gives a "Invalid Parameter" warning.

Can some kind person please help?
Best regards,
Alan.

Hi and Welcome,
I don't use AntiVir so I don't know, you have to figure out the syntax for the scan first. In AVG it is:

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avgscanx /scan=C:\;D:\

So in XY one can use either:

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run "avgscanx /scan=C:\";

or

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openwith """C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\avgscanx.exe"" /scan=C:\"

If you know for AntiVir then post it here and someone can help you.

[jacky]

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openwith """D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe""  /PATH="<items>""; 

hmm I don't think that's right, as here you're ending the (quoted) parameter of openwith before <items>, if you wanted <items> to be quoted those should be double-quotes as well (followed by a third one in a row at the end, of course). Although IIRC that shouldn't be necessary, as <items> does already return a space-separated list of quoted items.
So, this should be enough:

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openwith """D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe""  /PATH=<items>";

However it should be noted that the page zer0 linked to doesn't mention a list of items to be scanned, only the one path to a file or a folder, so it might not actually accept a list of items...

[trusted]

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openwith """D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe""  /PATH="<items>""; 

hmm I don't think that's right, as here you're ending the (quoted) parameter of openwith before <items>, if you wanted <items> to be quoted those should be double-quotes as well (followed by a third one in a row at the end, of course). Although IIRC that shouldn't be necessary, as <items> does already return a space-separated list of quoted items.
So, this should be enough:

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openwith """D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe""  /PATH=<items>";

However it should be noted that the page zer0 linked to doesn't mention a list of items to be scanned, only the one path to a file or a folder, so it might not actually accept a list of items...

Thank you all for your help.

I did have some success with :

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openwith """D:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe""  /PATH=<items>";

but it scanned 225 Files including the single one I had highlighted. So I need a way of pointing the scan only at the files/folders I have highlighted.

Further reading on the Avira Support site said the following:-
AntiVir Scanner uses the configuration set in AntiVir, under Configuration - Scanner. So, if you activated the option Scan master boot sectors, they will be scanned every time avscan.exe starts.

In case you do not want to use this option, because the scanning takes longer, there is a work-around, for scanning only the selcted files.

Download this profile file (right-click the link and select Save link as): filescan.avp
Save the file on your hard disk, then right-click it and select Properties. Activate the option Read only and press OK.
Now you have to apply this profile to the /CFG parameter. For example, to use AntiVir with WinRAR, you have to use the following parameters:
Scanner name: "%PROGRAMFILES%\Avira\AntiVir ...\avscan.exe"
Scanner parameter: /CFG="C:\filescan.avp" /PATH="%f"

This I have tried but without success.

Anymore help would be gratefully received.
Best regards,
Alan.

[zer0]

Therein lies a difficulty. From the article that I linked to, it's unclear whether it's possible to scan multiple files using command line arguments, just as jacky suspected. For further clarification on this it's best to contact Avira tech support. If it's not possible then no scripting trickery would make it work. If I am not mistaken, does Avira not have a context menu entry to scan selected files? Another quick Google search suggested that it has, so perhaps that's the answer in this case?

[Muroph]

i have avira , so i could try a few scripts.
the first thing i noticed was that <items> was not being resolved in the openwith command.
also, it seems like you can only pass one item to avira via cmdl.
this is what i came up with:

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$item=(getinfo(countselected)<1)?(<curpath>):(<curitem>);
  open """%programfiles%\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avscan.exe"" /PATH=""$item""";

it will scan the current item or the current path (if nothing is selected on the list).

EDIT:

Therein lies a difficulty. From the article that I linked to, it's unclear whether it's possible to scan multiple files using command line arguments, just as jacky suspected. For further clarification on this it's best to contact Avira tech support. If it's not possible then no scripting trickery would make it work.

from what i've seen avscan only works with one file|folder at a time via cmdl.
there's a more powerful dedicated command line version, but i never tested it.

If I am not mistaken, does Avira not have a context menu entry to scan selected files? Another quick Google search suggested that it has, so perhaps that's the answer in this case?

yeah, it does.
and with this you can scan many selected items at once.

[zer0]

If I am not mistaken, does Avira not have a context menu entry to scan selected files? Another quick Google search suggested that it has, so perhaps that's the answer in this case?

yeah, it does.
and with this you can scan many selected items at once.

trusted, is this functionality that is already provided by Avira sufficient or there's something inconvenient about using it that way?

[trusted]

If I am not mistaken, does Avira not have a context menu entry to scan selected files? Another quick Google search suggested that it has, so perhaps that's the answer in this case?

yeah, it does.
and with this you can scan many selected items at once.

trusted, is this functionality that is already provided by Avira sufficient or there's something inconvenient about using it that way?

No it's just fine. It was only something I was trying to do as part of my learning curve with Xyplorer. I would have to go and pick something that has proved hard to adapt to a User Button.

Anyway a big thanks to everyone who tried to help.

Best regards,
Alan.

[j_c_hallgren]

Hello this is my first time on these forums so please be gentle with me.

Can some kind person please help?

Hi and a belated welcome to the XY forums from me also!

As you probably have seen, we are (I think) one of the quickest, friendliest and helpful forums for a software appl! The only time we can be harsh to a first timer is when they post a long list of "wishes" (aka demands ) without having done much, if any, research on the forums first or similar...and you didn't do that so we treated you as such.

Hopefully you'll become a regular here and then also purchase XY (if you'd not done so).