Execute antivirus program programmatically using delphi

I wrote an small app to transfer files using the indy components, now i want start the antivirus program when the transfer is finished to check the files.

how i开发者_如何学Python can execute the antivirus program installed in the client side, when the download finish?

UPDATE I need implement something similar to firefox when download a file and then execute the antivirus installed in the machine.

thanks in advance.

See the nice person's answer to my other question.

Looks like there are two COM interfaces you should be grabbing, one of which is documented here:

IAttachmentExecute

This interface is part of the windows shell interfaces.

here is the commentary in the source

/**
 * Code overview
 *
 * Download scanner attempts to make use of one of two different virus
 * scanning interfaces available on Windows - IOfficeAntiVirus (Windows
 * 95/NT 4 and IE 5) and IAttachmentExecute (XPSP2 and up).  The latter
 * interface supports calling IOfficeAntiVirus internally, while also
 * adding support for XPSP2+ ADS forks which define security related
 * prompting on downloaded content.  
 *
 * Both interfaces are synchronous and can take a while, so it is not a
 * good idea to call either from the main thread. Some antivirus scanners can
 * take a long time to scan or the call might block while the scanner shows
 * its UI so if the user were to download many files that finished around the
 * same time, they would have to wait a while if the scanning were done on
 * exactly one other thread. Since the overhead of creating a thread is
 * relatively small compared to the time it takes to download a file and scan
 * it, a new thread is spawned for each download that is to be scanned. Since
 * most of the mozilla codebase is not threadsafe, all the information needed
 * for the scanner is gathered in the main thread in nsDownloadScanner::Scan::Start.
 * The only function of nsDownloadScanner::Scan which is invoked on another
 * thread is DoScan.

I found some more implementation information here. The feature is called AES.

Check how other programs do it, like Winrar. Most likely it is just starting the anti-virus program with the file or folder you want to scan as a command-line parameter. You can check the manual of your anti-virus program to check how it's done.

you can use shellexecute or createprocess, i use shellexecute but i've heard createprocess is better if you want to execute an antivirus called say antivvv using shellapi do it this way:

uses ShellApi;
 ...
 ShellExecute(Handle, 'open', 'c:\program files\antivvv.exe', nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;