is it possible to specify multiple scan areas when using the cl scanner?
what is the syntax… area, area etc?? or do you have to do one at a time??
many thanks 
Hi emilemma,
From looking in the help files, there is this feature in the paid versions of avast!
The easiest way to see how you can use it, open avast! → help center (near the top right) and search for command. There are a couple of pages, which show how to use it and the parameters you can use.
Scott
yes, i looked there to setup the scan… but it doesn’t really tell you if multiple areas can be scanned in one run… and i am familiar with setting up custom scans… what i want to do is scan boot areas & memory(/M) & also scan for rootkits at the same time through custom scan…
Ahh, I see…well that is beyond my knowledge, I use only the free version 
Just a thought, reading through, you could set up a custom scan to scan what you want and then use:
ashCmd.exe /@=“scan name”
Although that would be more appropriate if the scan doesn’t really change…
Scott
I’d say the easiest thing would be to simply try - and you’d have the answer immediately
Yes, you can specify multiple scan areas on the command line.
yes, i did try it by specifying /M for the boot sectors & then also specified --task=xxxx, but it did not work… only executed the specified task, not the boot scan…
Well, both the help shown by /? switch and the help file clearly says that when the --task switch is used, all other parameters are ignored. So yes, if you use --task, you cannot use multiple areas (or rather, you can, but you have to put them into the definition of the task itself).
But you can use
ashCmd.exe C:\dir1 C:\dir2 D:\dir3 …
to the best of my knowledge, there is no way to specify "boot sectors’ other than the /M option so they cannot be included when setting up a custom scan, which is why i tried to include them on the cmd line along with the other scan in --task=xxx… when specifying “C:” drive in a scan do the boot sectors get scanned??.. also aware that two separate scans can be setup, but was trying to do it all in one scan… i have multiple drives & even if specifying C, X, Y, & Z to scan the boot sectors, i would not want to scan all the entire contents of each drive just to ckeck boot sectors… the drives are all 1TB or more…
thanks
I’m not completely sure I understand (what exactly is that additional task you are trying to run).
If you use ashCmd.exe C:, then the boot record of the C: drive will not be scanned, as it seems.
What I was trying to say is that if you want to scan the boot records and drive C: at that, for example, you can use ashCmd.exe C: /m and you’re done. Or, ashCmd.exe C:\Windows D:\SomethingElse /m - as another example.
(On a side note, I believe scanning of boot records for malware is pretty much useless these days; sure, there might be MBR rootkits, but those are the task for the antirootkit scan, which is not connected to the /m switch). But, the /m switch also scans modules loaded in memory, which may be useful.)