Unisar 1.24.1867 manual Real life usage, Virus scanning, Scan a regular file

Real life usage	Using	09
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Chapter 9. Real life usage

These are some real-life usage examples of BitDefender. Use them as guidelines for improving your system protection and, if you have found a different way to use BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices, do not hesitate to contact us and share your experience. You can write us at <documentation@bitdefender.com>.

9.1. Virus scanning

BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices knows the best how to perform an antivirus scan on files and directories located on some filesystem. Here are some basic usage examples.

9.1.1. Scan a regular file

If you just want to scan a simple file, you can run bdscan specifying the path to the file.

#bdscan --action=quarantine --verbose file.exe

As you can see below, one file was scanned and found infected, the virus was identified and the file was moved to quarantine directory. Since verbose messages were asked, the name of the plugins used are also displayed.

You could use another action, such as disinfect, to try to disinfect the file first. Since not all files can be disinfected, you could try next to quarantine or even delete it.

Of course, you can use the ignore action (which is equivalent to not specifying an action at all) and you will only be prompted when viruses are found. This behavior is extremely useful on read-only filesystems, such as optical disks (CD-ROM, DVD) or network filesystems mounted read-only.

BitDefender Antivirus Scanner v7.60124 Linux-i686

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