Sudo detectx search -aj ~/Desktop/searchtest.json Or, by passing the extra -j option, in JSON format: Sudo detectx vvvv -a ~/Desktop/searchtest.txt You can specify a path to output the results, either in regular text: If you’d like more verbose output, including how long the search took, try either the vsearch or vvvv commands: If you want to restrict the search to one or more users, the -u option allows you to specify a list of shortuser names (comma-delimited): You can search all users by using sudo and the -a option: Probably the most important benefit you gain with scanning on the command line rather than from the app’s interface is the ability to scan all, or selected, other users. We’re going to need that so that we can pass the alias to sudo when we want to pass certain options to the search.
Note the sudo line (and note the extra space in the value).
bash_profileĪlias detectx='/Applications/DetectX\ Swift.app/Contents/MacOS/DetectX\ Swift' bash_profile to include a shortcut alias. Since that’s a bit of a handful, even using tab completion, you might want to edit your. Applications/DetectX\ Swift.app/Contents/MacOS/DetectX\ Swift search In that case, you’d need to execute this on the command line: In this example, let’s suppose that the app is in /Applications folder. To use the CLI search, you need to specify the full path to the app executable.
#VIRUS CHECKING FOR MAC HOW TO#
In this post, I’m going to give you a quick tour of the CLI (Command Line Interface) tool with some examples of how to use it (if you haven’t yet grabbed a free copy of DetectX Swift you might want to do that first to play along). DetectX Swift now has the ability to do command line searches for issues on your mac like malware, keyloggers, browser hijacks and potentially dangerous software, and there’s a number of extra options that are not available when using the user interface.
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