| Summary |
| Product: | F-PROT Antivirus for Windows |
| Version: | 3 |
Please note that version 6 of F-PROT Antivirus for Windows has been released. We recommend that all Home, Corporate and Mail Server users of version 3 of F-PROT Antivirus for Windows upgrade their program to the newest version as soon as possible.
| What are the command-line options for fpcmd? |
Command-Line Scanner command-line options feature a long form options which are preceded by a single hyphen (as in -append). These command-line options are not case sensitive.
Usage: F-PROT [drive, file or directory][options]
Please select which Command-Line Scanner options you would like to learn:
By default F-PROT only lists files which have been found to be infected.
-appendAppend to existing report file.
-helpDisplays short summary of available options for the Command-Line Scanner.
-listShow a list of all files which have been checked.
-nobreakDo not abort scan if ESC is pressed.
-oldDo not give a warning message when using outdated DEF files.
-pageOnly show one screen output at a time.
-report=<report_name>Save output to the <report_name> file.
-silentDo not generate any screen output.
-vernoShow version information.
-virlistList viruses known to F-PROT Antivirus with the current virus signature files.
-virnoGive statistical information about viruses known to F-PROT Antivirus with the current virus signature files.
-wrapWrap text output so it fits in 78 columns. This also applies to the file used with the -report option.
By default F-PROT scans all files, including inside archives.
-aiEnable neural-network virus detection. The -ai option should not be used with the -noheur option.
-archive=nScan inside supported archives n levels deep, the supported range is between 1 and 99, the default level is 5. Supported archives are .zip, .cab, .tar, .gz, .izh and .arj files. Currently F-PROT Antivirus does not support disinfection or removal of infected files within archives. Mailboxes are considered to be archives and therefore F-PROT Antivirus is not able to remove infected attachments.
-noarchiveDoes not scan inside archives. The option -noarchive implies -noserver.
-server [default]Turns on heuristics that are suitable when scanning mail messages on a mail server. Attempts to identify infections within password protected archives. The option -server implies -archive.
-noserverDoes not attempt to identify infections within password protected archives.
-autoAutomatically remove detected viruses. As noted above, this will not work on achieved files.
-collectScan a virus collection. This option is intended for advanced users. When this option is used it will, e.g. scan for bootsector viruses within files, even though the virus resides within a file instead of a bootsector.
-deleteDelete infected files. User confirmation is required. However, the -auto option can be used to automatically confirm the action. F-PROT Antivirus does not support removal of infected objects located in archives. Also, the -delete option has no effect on office documents, since that could cause the loss of work.
-disinfDisinfect whenever possible. User confirmation is required. However, the -auto option can be used to automatically confirm the action. F-PROT Antivirus does not support disinfection of infected objects located in archives.
-dumb [default]Scan all files, regardless of extensions or content.
-extScan only files with default extensions.
-typeScan files by content. By default F-PROT scans all files. By using the -type option, you are instructing the scanner to limit the search to scanning by content.
-followFollow symbolic links. This should be used with care, as the program does not detect "circular" directories, and may get stuck in an endless loop.
-noheurDisable heuristic scanning. The -noheur option should not be used with the -ai option.
-nosubDo not scan subdirectories.
-onlyheurOnly use heuristics, do not scan for known virus signatures. By using this option F-PROT Antivirus will only detect a fraction of infected files.
-packed [default]Unpack compressed executables. There is no corresponding -nopacked option. This option is provided for legacy reasons.
-renameRename extensions of infected files to prevent them from being executed, e.g. renaming file.com to file.vom and file.exe to file.vxe. This will not prevent files from being executed on Unix since on the one hand .exe files and .com files from Windows are not executable on a Unix platform by default, and on the other hand file extensions are not used on Unix systems with regards to executability.
By default F-PROT scans for macro's within known file-types.
-nomacroDo not scan for macro viruses.
-onlymacroOnly scan for macro viruses.
-removeallRemove all macros from all documents. When this option is used with -disinf or -delete all identified macros will be removed.
-removenewRemove new variants of macro viruses by removing all macros from infected documents.
-saferemoveRemove all macros from documents, if a known virus is found.
These information options are stand-alone, you can not combine them with other options. (The version information displayed by -verno are included in the beginning of every scan report by default).
-vernoShow version information.
-virlistList viruses known to F-PROT Antivirus with the current virus signature files.
-virnoGive statistical information about viruses known to F-PROT Antivirus with the current virus signature files.
EXIT CODES0 Normal exit. Nothing found, nothing done.
1 Unrecoverable error (e.g., missing virus signature files).
2 Selftest failed (program has been modified).
3 At least one virus-infected object was found.
4 Reserved, not currently in use.
5 Abnormal termination (scanning did not finish).
6 At least one virus was removed.
7 Error, out of memory.
8 At least one suspicious object was found.
9 At least one object was not scanned (encrypted file, unsupported/unknown compression method, unsupported/unknown file format, corrupted or invalid file).
10 At lest one archive object was not scanned (contains more then N levels of nested archives, as specified with -archive switch).
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