Command-Line Scanning?

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Peter

I would like to know if I can run an unattended scan from
the command-line. I would like to add the command to so a
"silent" scan and clean in a batch file. Does this feature
exist? If not, when will it be added?
 
You can do a command-line scan with no UI--see the faq for command-line
arguments to the main executable.

There are lots of risks to this process--I know that for scheduled scans,
for example, the default is Quarantine, rather than remove. I don't know if
that holds for a scan initiated via the command prompt.

You may want to wait for a version in which this capability is documented
before making extensive use of it. I can't predict when that would be.
 
What does the "-schedule" parameter do?
Also, I think that after the system is scanned andd cleaned
for the first time, little or no spywware will be
accumulated thanks to the real-time scanning. This makes a
scheduled scan less dangerous.
 
I've done barely enough experimentation with this to know that some of the
parameters seem to work. I haven't dared try the -schedule parameter.
Given the unusual nature of the gui scheduler, I'm not anxious to try
anything undocumented of this nature. Probably silly--it's probably dead
easy to use, and works perfectly, and fixes the GUI, but then again......

Looking at what documentation we have, which was anonymously contributed, as
I recall, I really don't see what that parameter would be likely to do. I'd
rely on a known effective scheduling mechanism, perhaps even the one
built-in to Windows, and let it run the command line procedure.
 
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