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AUTOSCAN
R. P. Reeves
16215 Mill Point
Houston, TX 77059
This program was written to automate the execution of McAfee's virus
scanner using QuickBasic 4 and Crescent Software's Quickpak
Professional.
This software is hereby released to the public domain. Any donations
should be sent to the address listed above. I have installed this
software on all PC's on the network at my place of employment, and wrote
it at the request of someone who rebooted several times a day (heavy
Windows user) and didn't want SCAN to execute each time.
AUTOSCAN should be placed in your in the beginning of your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file but after your path assignment, which must include the path to
SCAN.EXE. SCAN.EXE (McAfee's virus scanner) should be in the root
directory of your C: drive or in a directory pointed to by your path
statement. AUTOSCAN will run only once per day, even if you reboot your
PC several times during the course of the day. It works by sending the
output of SCAN to a file in the root directory of C: that is date coded
from the PC's internal clock (example 11201991.X%X). When the machine is
booted, AUTOSCAN determines if the machine has been scanned that day by
looking for a file coded with that day's date. If this file is found,
AUTOSCAN simply continues the boot process. If this file is not found,
AUTOSCAN directs SCAN to scan all logical drives and sends the output to
both the screen and to a date coded file. AUTOSCAN will erase the
previous day's report file so that these files do not accumulate on the
PC's hard drive. Drives that do not exist will simply not be included in
the report.
Note that AUTOSCAN does not scan floppy drives. Suspect floppy disks
should be scanned manually (example SCAN A:).
Example of AUTOEXEC.BAT
@echo off
prompt $p$g
path c:\;c:\dos;c:\virus
call startnet
autoscan
any additional commands...
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