yeah the question says “would…”… keeping in mind that there are no such products yet. I thought about cloud AVs but I think that even Panda Cloud for instance allows manual scans… not sure, I just tried it once or twice a while ago.

yeah, that’s the thing, even a dormant malware (undetected by previous AVS updates) doesn’t matter really, as it’d be picked up by the file shield when the file gets “activated” - as long as a new VPS detects it. If the FS still doesn’t, then an on demand scan wouldn’t either. Remains the case of unscanned archives, doesn’t matter either as they’ll be scanned at unpacking time.

again, I didn’t start this thread to refer to any other existing AV solution. Thought it was obvious that I was talking about AV conceptions. One last thing, the resident scanners are so good now that I wouldn’t be surprised if on demand scanning modes were ditched progressively by security software companies.