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[Rise]

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?

[TLM]

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
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[Rise]

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.

[tactical64]

I thought my post might be helpful to you.

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

[MyBestGuest]

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.

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