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WORKING WITH THE APPLICATION FROM
THE COMMAND LINE
You can work with Kaspersky Anti-Virus from the command line. Capability is provided to perform the following
operations:
start and stop application components;
start and stop virus scan tasks;
obtain information on the current status of components and tasks as well as their statistics;
scan selected objects;
update databases and application modules;
call up help on command prompt syntax;
call up help on command syntax.
Command prompt syntax:
avp.com <command> [options]
You must access the application from the command line from the application installation folder, or by specifying the full
path to avp.com.
The following commands are provided:
ACTIVATE
Activates Kaspersky Anti-Virus via Internet using an activation code
ADDKEY
Activates the application using a key file. The command can only be
executed if the password assigned via the application interface is entered
START
Starts a component or a task
STOP
Stops a component or a task. The command can only be executed if the
password assigned via the Kaspersky Anti-Virus interface is entered
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 list of commands
SCAN
Object scan for viruses
UPDATE
Starts the application update
ROLLBACK
Rolls back to the last Kaspersky Anti-Virus update made. The command can
only be executed if the password assigned via the application interface is
entered
EXIT
Closes the application. The command can only be executed if the password
assigned via the application interface is entered