Virus Scanner
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can anyone tell me how i can query which is the currently installed anti virus packege in my OS[Windows 9x/2000/...] ------------------------------------------- My application needs to scan application files before it starts using them So i planned that i needed to get the currently installed antivirus package n call createprocess like some applications i could have the user input this manually in a cnfiguration dialog i however have seen that microsoft office products word excel ppt etc automatically do this when a doc is opened so i guess the details of the current anti virus packege is stored inthe shell of the OS somewhere like the registry any ideas????
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can anyone tell me how i can query which is the currently installed anti virus packege in my OS[Windows 9x/2000/...] ------------------------------------------- My application needs to scan application files before it starts using them So i planned that i needed to get the currently installed antivirus package n call createprocess like some applications i could have the user input this manually in a cnfiguration dialog i however have seen that microsoft office products word excel ppt etc automatically do this when a doc is opened so i guess the details of the current anti virus packege is stored inthe shell of the OS somewhere like the registry any ideas????
are u really sure that microsoft office product use the installed virus scanner? Don't try it, just do it! ;-)
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can anyone tell me how i can query which is the currently installed anti virus packege in my OS[Windows 9x/2000/...] ------------------------------------------- My application needs to scan application files before it starts using them So i planned that i needed to get the currently installed antivirus package n call createprocess like some applications i could have the user input this manually in a cnfiguration dialog i however have seen that microsoft office products word excel ppt etc automatically do this when a doc is opened so i guess the details of the current anti virus packege is stored inthe shell of the OS somewhere like the registry any ideas????
fordge wrote: i however have seen that microsoft office products word excel ppt etc automatically do this when a doc is opened Microsoft Office is not doing this, the installed AV software is. It can be configured to scan all sorts of files, documents included. The AV software "gets" the file before Office does to allow for a virus-free file.
A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one that needs the least.
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fordge wrote: i however have seen that microsoft office products word excel ppt etc automatically do this when a doc is opened Microsoft Office is not doing this, the installed AV software is. It can be configured to scan all sorts of files, documents included. The AV software "gets" the file before Office does to allow for a virus-free file.
A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one that needs the least.
so if instead of Norton AV suppose another AV is installed say mcAfee or TrendMicro in that case also do the docs get scanned before they r opened? can anyone who has used any other AV package comment on such a feature in which case then indeed it should be a feature of office that calls some generic interface so that the installed AV software is invoked coz else shouldnt my opening a file in notepad also trigger the file to be scanned by Norton AV. can anyone who has used any other AV package comment on such a feature??
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so if instead of Norton AV suppose another AV is installed say mcAfee or TrendMicro in that case also do the docs get scanned before they r opened? can anyone who has used any other AV package comment on such a feature in which case then indeed it should be a feature of office that calls some generic interface so that the installed AV software is invoked coz else shouldnt my opening a file in notepad also trigger the file to be scanned by Norton AV. can anyone who has used any other AV package comment on such a feature??
fordge wrote: so if instead of Norton AV suppose another AV is installed say mcAfee or TrendMicro in that case also do the docs get scanned before they r opened? Yes, if they are capable of, and are configured to, scan documents. fordge wrote: in which case then indeed it should be a feature of office that calls some generic interface so that the installed AV software is invoked Office is none the wiser that the file it opened was run through a virus-scanner first. That's the beauty of AV software. It monitors each open-file request, scans the file, then hands it on to the requesting application. fordge wrote: coz else shouldnt my opening a file in notepad also trigger the file to be scanned by Norton AV. Since Notepad-type (e.g., .txt, .log, .cfg) files cannot contain a virus, it's pointless to scan them.
A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one that needs the least.