Virus scan option...
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Virus scan option...
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.
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.
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.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.
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.not all have an option to scan downloaded or transfered files
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....
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.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)
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)
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.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)