From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

IF /?  (then check out the EXIST option)

"Chris Robinson"  wrote in
message news:3EF9C540.66D7A5AF{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> I have a share set up on one of our PC's that's set to have Everyone as
> Full Controll.  The idea being that if we get any Virus's that propogate
> to network shares, we'll know about it.  I want to write a batch file
> that checks the Directory periodically (I'll use task scheduler) and, if
> it finds a file in there, does a NET SEND to my PC so I know something
> could be wrong.
>
> I've tried a few things so far, but the one I'm working on at the moment
> is this (NT4, SP6 btw) - Prior to running the batch file, I've created a
> text file from "dir > testdir-clean.txt" that is basically the test
> directory with no files in it (i.e. "Clean"):
>
> *****Start of Batch File*****
>
> dir c:\testdir > testdir-current.txt
> fc /L c:\testdir-clean.txt c:\testdir-current.txt
>
> IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO _POSSVIRUS
>
> IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO _NOVIRUS
>
> :_POSSVIRUS
> NET SEND mypcname File detected
> EXIT
>
> :_NOVIRUS
> EXIT
>
> *****End Of batch File*****
>
> So, "fc" is file compare and "/L" compares the
files as ASCII text.  The
> idea being that if it detects a difference, then another file is present
> in the directory.  I'm not 100% certain on the use of the ERRORLEVEL
> section though and this is the bit that doesn't seem to be working atm -
> any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>

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