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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 andfound 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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