Pestpatrol 5 Options

[rocketman]

anyone try to get the new version (5) of pest patrol working?

[rocketman]

bump

[norseman]

I know it will require .net framework plugin. I don't know how to get pest patrol to work itself though.

[Loony]

I use successfully commandline tool from pest patrol 5 in PE.
Here's what i do. Install pest patrol 5.
Now in PE plugin folder creat new plugin folder. Call it pestpatrol if you like. In the pestpatrol folder create sub folder called 'files'. Now copy from pest patrol 5 the following files. Some are in pestaptrol 5 install folder and some are in c:\program files\common files\pest patrol. Grab the folloing:

_ppremoteservice.tlb
langv5.dat
lfinfo.dat
ppcl.exe
ppcl.ini
ppctl.dll
ppv5exc.dat
shfolder.dll
ppsrindex.dat
PPFile.dat
PPInfo.dat
pploc.dat
Spyware.dat ( this one may not be present -more about this later)

Now also copy to plugin pestpatrol folder\files Paraglider's
RunScanner.exe
RunScannerDLL.dll


Now here is code

pestpatrol.inf

CODE

; pestpatrol.inf
; PE Builder v3 plug-in INF file for PestPatrol Corporate 5 Commandline Scanner
; Created by Loony

[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"

[PEBuilder]
Name="Pestpatrol"
Enable=1

[WinntDirectories]
a="Programs\pestpatrol",2

[SourceDisksFiles]
pestpatrol.cmd=a,,1

[SourceDisksFolders]
files=a,,1

[Append]
nu2menu.xml, pestpatrol_nu2menu.xml

pestpatrol_nu2menu.xml

CODE

<!-- Nu2Menu entry for Pestpatrol -->
<NU2MENU>
    <MENU ID="Spyware and Trojan Removal">      
 <MITEM TYPE="ITEM" DISABLED="@Not(@FileExists(@GetProgramDrive()\Programs\pestpatrol\pestpatrol.cmd))" CMD="RUN" FUNC="@GetProgramDrive()\Programs\pestpatrol\pestpatrol.cmd">Pestpatrol</MITEM>
    </MENU>
</NU2MENU>

Don't forget to change menu id to whatever you have on your menu

pestpatrol.cmd

CODE

@echo off
rem -------------------------------------------------------------------------
rem ppatrol.cmd -  to start PestPatrol 5.0

rem -------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo ppatrol.CMD: Starting...
setlocal

if exist "x:\Programs\pestpatrol\ppcl.exe" goto _run

:_run
start x:\Programs\pestpatrol\RunScanner.exe x:\Programs\pestpatrol\ppcl.exe /hard /deep /info /append /QuarPath:c:\quarantine /log:c:\vlogs\pestpatrol.txt
goto _end

echo.

:_end
endlocal

The scan parameters are such that you will still be asked by default what you want to do. Pestpatrol wil ask to (e) exterminate (q) quarantine (i) ignore. It is best to be asked this way as pest patrol could delete something on a false positive basis.


Note: You see in cmd file log pasth as c:\vlogs etc . You can name this what you want. What i do is add this line to bart pe plugin "autorun" autorun.cmd file-
md c:\vlogs
This automatically creates the folder on c: drive when bart pe loads. You can later view or copy to floppy or any place else for later viewing. Ok

Now updeates for scanning engine detecion dat files. If you ever go to pest patrol updates you see that no update is mentioned for pest patrol 5.0. Ignore message about using wrong version updates
You can download updates for version 4.xx and use with pestaptrol 5.0 commandline scanner no problem
The only files needed to download are
ppinfo.dat
ppfile.dat
spyware.dat
Just dl and overwrite ones in pestpatrol plugin whendoing updating of pe build. Maybe someone who has online access with their PE can make up a wget cmd to do this . I don't use with network connection etc so i never maded wget cmd.

Anyway here is link for pest patrol updates
http://www.pestpatrol.com/Support/Downloads.asp
Used in conjunction with adaware se a lot of spyware junk can be ferreted out and removed.

[samplempg]

there will having a "Protection Error" message saying your are using softice when you use Runscanner with PPCL.EXE. Could you post a download link of your *WORKING* version of ppcl.exe

[Former_mythicevil_post]

Has anyone bothered with an update or what I would love and i do mean LOVE, is to have an Auto_Help Plugin for Pest Patrol. Alot of plugins are available with auto_help and sets up the plugin for you and is very easy however I cant find any for Pest patrol! I have it installed on my pc so the files are thier I just need a plugin.

Does the above text work on the uptodate versions?