Working with the program from the command prompt

You can use Active Virus Shield from the command prompt. You can execute the following operations:

Starting, stopping, pausing and resuming the activity of application components

Starting, stopping, pausing and resuming virus scans

Obtaining information on the current status of components and tasks and statistics on them

Scanning selected objects

Updating threat signatures and program modules

Calling up help on command prompt syntax

Calling up help on command syntax

START	Starts a component or a task
PAUSE	Pauses a component or a task
RESUME	Resumes a component or a task
STOP	Stops a component or a task
STATUS	Displays the current component or task status on screen
STATISTICS	Displays statistics for the component or task on screen
HELP	Help with command syntax and the list of commands
SCAN	Scans objects for viruses
UPDATE	Begins program update
EXIT	Closes the program (you can only execute this command with a password assigned in the program interface)
IMPORT	Imports Active Virus Shield settings
EXPORT	Exports Active Virus Shield settings

Each command corresponds to its own set of parameters specific to that particular Active Virus Shield component.