AutoHotkey Community

I'm thinking about putting together a script to run my favorite free virus scanner/spyware detector programs since I use about 7 of them to ensure I catch everything. It's very tedious but if I ran them at night it wouldn't affect me at all.

So running the programs is easy enough, but are there any recommendations on how to see when they are done scanning in order to approve removing all of the items and then continue on to the other programs? removing the items isn't an issue, just seeing when the window changes is the issue, I guess.

thoughts/suggestions on how to know when the scan is done?

7 anti virus apps is extreme ...

Do you get any confirmation windows at completion? If so you could scan for those.

If not another way is to query whether the process exists.

So while it scans it will have a certain process and once its done that process may not exist anymore.

Its kind of hard to tell program to program which will and which wont work.

Take a look at IfWinExist and or Process.

They should get you started.

hth

_________________
paradigm.shift:=(•_•)┌П┐RTFM||^.*∞

thanks! I'll try that out.

yeah I just had some nasty trojans and it took me 7 programs to find everything on my comp

adaware, spyware blaster, spybot search and destroy, malware bytes, AVG free, avast, and ccleaner.

I thought my post might be helpful to you.

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50208

use command line switches to run the scans silently (set paramters on the command line or save the settings from the gui depending on how the apps work) and then use RunWait.

your asking for trouble using 7 of them
this could make your PC to run UN Stable

virus scanners run the registry and all so locate other apps that do the same and may pick up other apps running your registry as a virus
so now you got all these apps that may assume 1 of your virus scan app a virus it self.

i know i used spybot and avg once and it gave me the blue screen so bad i had to re install windows because my pc was never the same after all this happen i had all kinds of problems like shutting down and all kinds of stuff
and all so dont think just because you install windows its all going to be all fine again because some times it can do hardware damage and not software