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<blockquote data-quote="Ratsima" data-source="post: 1819560" data-attributes="member: 402210">Well, this wasn't about what AV software to use. I'd already decided to use ClamAV (free and open source) not ClamXAV (annual subscription fee) and DetectX.Since DetectX doesn't have a way to schedule it to run periodically, I was asking about the best way to do that.I set it up to run via launchd which worked fine. It did its scan whilst I was sleeping and was there with the results when I got up this morning. I do think it's a shame that DetectX doesn't have a built in scheduler, nor does it use the Mac Notification system and has no Growl interface. Either of these would be useful; especially when I'm away from home and would like to know the results of the scan.The shell script I wrote to run ClamAV updates the virus definitions, runs a scan, sends a Growl notification of the results and also sends me a brief summary via email. I'd like to be able to do that with DetectX. (I am aware that I can pay for an enterprise version of DetectX that runs from the command line. I'm not prepared to do that just yet.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ratsima, post: 1819560, member: 402210"] Well, this wasn't about what AV software to use. I'd already decided to use ClamAV (free and open source) not ClamXAV (annual subscription fee) and DetectX. Since DetectX doesn't have a way to schedule it to run periodically, I was asking about the best way to do that. I set it up to run via launchd which worked fine. It did its scan whilst I was sleeping and was there with the results when I got up this morning. I do think it's a shame that DetectX doesn't have a built in scheduler, nor does it use the Mac Notification system and has no Growl interface. Either of these would be useful; especially when I'm away from home and would like to know the results of the scan. The shell script I wrote to run ClamAV updates the virus definitions, runs a scan, sends a Growl notification of the results and also sends me a brief summary via email. I'd like to be able to do that with DetectX. (I am aware that I can pay for an enterprise version of DetectX that runs from the command line. I'm not prepared to do that just yet.) [/QUOTE]

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