VirusHammer Howto

The VirusHammer is a standalone tool to scan for viruses. You can select several directories to scan and will be informed about all viruses found. The selected directories are stored in user preferences, so they are remembered when you restart.

Necessary software

You need an installed Java 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (JRE) . Every JRE >= 1.2 should be fine, but I just tested it with 1.3.1 and 1.4. You can get it from Sun at http://java.sun.com/j2se/ .

Usage

With Linux (read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/java.txt) or Windows you simple start 'PatternFinder.jar' like every other application, e.g. by single- or double-clicking on it. You can also start it from the command line with 
java -jar VirusHammer.jar

Getting speed

The current JRE from Sun offers two different VMs: client- and server-vm. The client-vm has shorted startup times, but scans slower; the server-vm has longer startup times, but scans much faster. There are scripts to start VirusHammer using the server-vm (client-vm is default):
The VirusHammer.jar has to reside in the same directory as the script. Both scripts start VirusHammer like this
java -server -jar VirusHammer.jar
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