Nathan Bylsma 0 Report post Posted November 20 Hi everyone. So I downloaded Emsisoft Emergency Kit and then I saw you can use it from the command prompt. Immediately I went and downloaded the eicar.com test file to use. Everything went great until I tried to whitelist is. My whitelist.txt contains the following: (I attached the txt file as well) E:\*\eicar.com e:\*\eicar E:\avtestfile\eicar.com e:\avtestfile\eicar.com E:\avtestfile\eicar e:\avtestfile\eicar As it can be clearly seen I created a separate partition to do the testing. Am I doing something wrong ? Is there a specific format to use ? I would very much appreciate it if someone could give a little guidance. Thank you! whitelist.txt.txt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GT500 594 Report post Posted November 21 It seems to work OK in my testing. It's possible that whitelist processing is erroring out for you since you have invalid paths in the whitelist. I created a folder named "test" on a USB flash drive (assigned drive letter E:\), I saved the EICAR test file in this folder, and then added the following exclusion to whitelist.txt: E:\test\eicar.com I then executed the scan from an elevated Command Prompt using the following command: C:\EEK\bin64\a2cmd.exe /f=E:\ /rk /m /t /pup /a /n /wl=C:\Users\GT500\Desktop\whitelist.txt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nathan Bylsma 0 Report post Posted November 27 Still doesn't work. My whitelist contains the following: E:\avtestfile\eicar.com My commands are run as followed: cd C:\EEK\bin64 a2cmd /f=E:\avtestfile /log=E:\log.txt /wl=E:\whitelist.txt Results are the same. I'll attach the log file as well as my whitelist if that might help. Perhaps you know of a workaround for this to work ? scanlog.log whitelist.txt.txt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GT500 594 Report post Posted November 28 Does it work if you leave a blank line at the end of the whitelist.txt file? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nathan Bylsma 0 Report post Posted November 28 Nope, a number of times I tried leaving either a blank space or a blank line in the whitelist.txt but still no luck at whitelisting it. I also left a few spaces in the command after the whitelist argument yet it still finds 1 virus (eicar.com). You think uninstalling and reinstalling might do the trick ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GT500 594 Report post Posted November 29 20 hours ago, Nathan Bylsma said: You think uninstalling and reinstalling might do the trick ? I wouldn't expect a reinstall to have any effect. I noticed that your whitelist.txt has a UTF-8 character encoding, however I tested in a virtual machine and only had Notepad so my whitelist.txt had an ANSI character encoding. Try converting/saving your whitelist.txt file into ANSI, and let me know if that helps. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nathan Bylsma 0 Report post Posted November 29 2 hours ago, GT500 said: I wouldn't expect a reinstall to have any effect. I noticed that your whitelist.txt has a UTF-8 character encoding, however I tested in a virtual machine and only had Notepad so my whitelist.txt had an ANSI character encoding. Try converting/saving your whitelist.txt file into ANSI, and let me know if that helps. I figured it out, all thanks to you. When I was about to save it with ANSI character encoding, as I typed it showed the autocomplete name which was "whitelist.txt.txt". You see when I saved it the first time I typed in the entire name + file extension and set it to save as a txt file and it saved it as whitelist.txt.txt. I got it to work, but I can't help to feel a bit stupid now. Thank you very much for your effort, hope you have a great weekend. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GT500 594 Report post Posted November 30 Yes, Windows does hide file extensions by default, so unless you disable that in folder options then you wouldn't have even known. I'm glad you were able to figure it out. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites