Command line parameter passing to Avast 4 Home

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

Hi, Folks.

As you know, some programs, e.g., Winzip, allow the user to specify a virus scanner to scan archived files, downloaded files, etc. If Avast 4 Home is capable of scanning individual files in this manner, which executable do I specifiy, and are there any switches to be used in addition to the file parameter %1?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. In the meatime, I’m going to RTFM and see what I can find there as well.

2

Actually, I think you can do that from within Avast itself through the settings in the standard shield through the file extension sets.

3

You can use ashQuick.exe to do that. Read WinZIP’s manual on how to pass the filename on the command-line.

What ashQuick wants is

ashQuick

Thanks
Vlk

4

Yes, that will perform implicit scanning in real time, which is a good thing. I would still like programs that can to perform explicit scans of files they handle, however.

5

Ah, yes. That is what I sought. Thank you for your help, Vlk.