Scanning options:

Options Description
-ai Enable neural-network virus detection. The -ai option should not be used with the -noheur option.
-archive Scan inside supported archives. 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. Unix mailboxes are considered to be archives and therefore F-Prot Antivirus is not able to remove infected attachments.
-auto Automatically remove detected viruses. As noted above, this will not work on archived files.
-collect Scan 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.
-delete Delete infected files. By default this requires user confirmation but if you include the -auto option f-prot will not prompt you for confirmation before deleting infected files. F-Prot Antivirus does not support removal of infected files located within archives.
-disinf Disinfect whenever possible. By default this requires user confirmation but if you include the -auto option F-Prot Antivirus will not prompt you for confirmation before disinfecting infected files. F-Prot Antivirus does not support disinfection of infected files located within archives.
-dumb Scan all files, regardless of extensions or content.
-ext Scan only files with default extensions.
-follow Follow symbolic links. This should be used with care, as the program does not detect "circular" directories, and may get stuck in an endless loop.
-noheur Disable heuristic scanning. The -noheur option should not be used with the -ai option.
-nosub Do not scan subdirectories.
-onlyheur Only 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 Unpack compressed executables.
-rename Rename 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 Linux because:
  • .exe files and .com files from Windows are not executable on a Linux platform by default
  • file extensions are not used on Unix systems with regards to executability.
-type Select files by type. (default)

 

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