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General Information

  • McAfee Command Line Scanner looks like an old DOS program.
    However, it is a full 32bit Windows® program, but without the GUI interface.

  • If you have McAfee VirusScan 8.7i ( the GUI version ), 
    then McAfee Command Line 6.x is no longer shipped with the GUI version.

    You need an NAI grant number and then you can download the command line scanner from their support portal. The file name of the latest version is vscl-w32-6.0.1-l.zip and you need to extract the files into C:\Program Files\Common Files\McAfee\Engine

  • If you have McAfee VirusScan 7.x/8.x ( the GUI version ), 
    then you may find McAfee Command Line 4.x/5.x  at
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates\Engine\Scan.exe

  • If you have McAfee VirusScan 6.x ( the GUI version ), 
    then you may find McAfee Command Line 4.x/5.x at
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx\Scan.exe

  • Else download the scanner using the description you find below and 
    extract the files from the zip to a directory of you choice.
     
  • In MBAdmin select View->Options->Virus and
    select the directory to which you extracted scan.exe.

Download

There are several choices for downloading the scanner:

DAT Files

The latest DAT files are available from ftp://ftp.nai.com/commonupdater2/current/vscandat1000/dat/0000/

The name of the file is avvdat-xxxx.zip, where xxxx is a daily changing number.