Question about /fullscan and multiple hard drives

[MaximusMMIV]

I have two hard drives on my PC. [C:\] contains my OS and installed applications. [D:\] is a storage drive that contains installer files, music, videos, documents, etc. I have a weekly task set up in Windows (it's a batch file) that automatically runs Malwarebytes using the /fullscan command line parameter. I would like to be able to differentiate between which drives are scanned during the scan. Essentially, since [D:\] is much less likely to become infected, I would like to set a separate task for scanning [D:\] that occurs monthly.

Does this option exist?

Example:

mbam.exe /fullscan:C

mbam.exe /fullscan:D

etc.

[GT500]

I would believe that the help file describes that the Full Scan command line options automatically scan all hard drives. I'm not home at the moment though, so I don't have the documentation in front of me.

[exile360]

Yes, there's only an option for the full scan, it currently supports no parameters for selecting particular drives, at least there's nothing about it in the help file.

[swagger]

I tested this theory a little while ago but hoped that a developer or a staff member would comment on this first. The /fullscan switch scans whatever drive(s) you have selected from the scanner if you were to perform the scan from the GUI. So if "F:\" was the last drive you scanned from the GUI, that is the drive it will scan with the command line switch. Test it out if you want to verify.

EDIT: Fixed my explanation. There were some inconsistencies.

[exile360]

Cool, I didn't know about that, it must store the last selected drives in the registry or something. Thanks for the info swagger .

[swagger]

You are welcome. I would have never known about it until the question was asked. Good question Maximus

[MaximusMMIV]

So where is that setting stored? Is it a registry key that I can toggle? If so, I could still accomplish my goal.

[GT500]

So where is that setting stored? Is it a registry key that I can toggle? If so, I could still accomplish my goal.

Registry export is as follows:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware]
"selectedrives"="C:\\|D:\\|"

[swagger]

Good find GT500!