Archive for May 2009

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Forcing AV scans from the command line in Forefront

May 1, 2009

One of the things that annoys me with Forefront is the inability to scan multiple, selected machines in the console. One way around that is to use the command line and mpcmdrun.exe. mpcmdrun.exe is the Forefront tool to get information, but can be used to start Forefront scans. “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront\Client Security\Client\Antimalware\mpcmdrun.exe” -Scan -scantype 1 [...]