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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 ofhow 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..."
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