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Please add a top menu option for users to use their installed virus scan program to scan selected files [such as with Norton AntiVirus].  Should also have a hotkey to run this option.  Thanks.
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You can find that option on r-click context menu for selected item(s).
No need to further complicate the menus or add extra buttons. ;)
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I realize that, but problem is: There is no hotkey to do this.  It also can't be made into a reliable macro because the right click menu shortkeys change depending on file types.  With how connected PCs are nowadays, convenient virus scanning is a must.  Thanks.
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First, the "Scan on access" option in the virusscan makes such selection redundant. If you are downloading a file, you can link the scan after download option in the mass-downloader.

So the need to scan an item with a hotkey is rare.

Secondly, in x2 there are a few hotkeys left, and a lot of features are yet to come that will need those hotkeys. When they come, we don't want to re-assign the hotkeys, as a lot of users would develop the habit of using those hotkeys already.

So it would be prudent not to commit any hotkeys to such functions which most of the users don't need.
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narayan wrote:First, the "Scan on access" option in the virusscan makes such selection redundant. If you are downloading a file, you can link the scan after download option in the mass-downloader.

So the need to scan an item with a hotkey is rare.

Secondly, in x2 there are a few hotkeys left, and a lot of features are yet to come that will need those hotkeys. When they come, we don't want to re-assign the hotkeys, as a lot of users would develop the habit of using those hotkeys already.

So it would be prudent not to commit any hotkeys to such functions which most of the users don't need.
Well, then allow user customizable hotkeys so that the usage of hotkeys won't lead to a shortage.  I don't know what antivirus you're using but not all have an option to scan downloaded or transfered files.  So for some users, this is useful.
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not all have an option to scan downloaded or transfered files
Actually this is a mass-downloader feature; not a virusscan feature. All popular mass downloaders have it (DAP, Free Download Manager, etc). You have to activate this feature and point at the antivirus application.
As soon as a new file is downloaded, the downloader will invoke the antivirus and get the file scanned.

Scan on access is a feature of antivirus application. I think this feature is so basic that no antivirus would come without it....
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It still would be nice to have a hotkey for virus scanning.
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if you know the command line equivalent of your virus scanner, you can add a user command (customize menu) for it acting on the selection (e.g. using $a token). This can be assigned a shortcut key or toolbar icon
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nikos wrote:if you know the command line equivalent of your virus scanner, you can add a user command (customize menu) for it acting on the selection (e.g. using $a token). This can be assigned a shortcut key or toolbar icon
Any idea on how to do this with Norton AntiVirus 2005/2006?
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your AV manual ;)
if there's a shortcut on your desktop to this AV check out its target (or the context menu equivalent in the registry as explained in another post)
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nikos wrote:your AV manual ;)
if there's a shortcut on your desktop to this AV check out its target (or the context menu equivalent in the registry as explained in another post)
I would have to look this up then.  But would you please consider adding this shortcut option in the future?  For ease-of-use purposes for users?  Thanks.
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shortcuts for standard shell context menu commands is an interesting feature for the future

in the meantime there already are keyboard equivalents: shift+f10 to open the menu and then each command usually has an underlined letter which is its accelerator key (you may have to press <alt> to see these)
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nikos wrote:shortcuts for standard shell context menu commands is an interesting feature for the future

in the meantime there already are keyboard equivalents: shift+f10 to open the menu and then each command usually has an underlined letter which is its accelerator key (you may have to press <alt> to see these)
Yes but the context menu doesn't stay consistent.  For some files, I can press "V" in the context menu to scan it with my virus scanner.  But if that file is an image file, there's an additional "preview" option in the context menu that also uses the "V".  Then it becomes more cumbersome because I then have to press "V-V-enter" to scan.  So having a consistent virus scan hotkey in the program would be nice.
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