Unisar 1.24.1867 manual BitDefender integration, Desktop integration, Midnight Commander

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Chapter 10. BitDefender integration

BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices is a versatile antivirus scanning solution, that could be easily integrated in desktop and server software to perform an instant target scan.

10.1. Desktop integration

You can configure your favorite file manager, email or news client to use BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices for an instant scan of some file or some email. In some cases this is as simple as a mouse click, key-shortcut or menu selection.

These are only few examples of how to run an antivirus scan from desktop applications.

10.1.1. Midnight Commander

GNU Midnight Commander is a directory browser and file manager for Unix-like operating systems.

—The Midnight Commander manual page

The user menu, invoked with F2 key, represents an easy way to provide users a menu to add extra features to the Midnight Commander. This can be edited by selecting from the menus Command → Menu file edit. You will be asked whether to edit the Local or the Home menu; select to edit the Home menu, for changes to be available in any directory.

The menu file is opened in an editor. Go to the end of the file and append the following lines. The care to respect the white spaces from the beginning of the lines.

+t rd & x /opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdscan

s Scan with BitDefender bdscan --no-list %s

echo -n "Press ENTER to continue..." read

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