Running a Custom Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials using a Batch Script

Here’s a small script I just wrote to perform an antivirus scan against a specified file.

@Echo off

FOR /F "Tokens=4" %%a IN (‘"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\AntiMalWare\mpcmdrun.exe" -Scan -ScanType 3 -File C:\TEMP\test1.wim -DisableRemediation’) DO SET THREAT=%%a
Echo.
if "%THREAT%"=="no" (
    color 2F
    Echo No Threats Found – All clean
    ) ELSE (
    color 4F
    Echo WARNING! Virus Found
)
Echo.
pause

If all is OK you get the following result

If a virus was found you get the following result.

I used a test virus file which can be found here