Custom Scanning Request for ALL users Desktop

[CVannest]

Good Afternoon,

I created a custom scanning profile for C:\passwords.txt and C:\passwords.txt but the limitation there is crippling. I would like to be able to scan the "Desktop" folder of all users profiles for the same file names. i.e. C:\Users\CVannest\Desktop\Passwords.txt (Password.txt). From the reading I've done, it appears I would have to do a custom scan with every path for every user ID I have...which is over 8000.

Anyone have a way to do this with a wildcard other than the three options given?

Thanks,
Carl

[Matt_K]

I was curious if there was any update to the capabilities for this type of scan.  I recently had a request to find any .mdb or .mde files in users' documents folders.  From what my research has shown me, unless I have a specific path and file name for a binary result, I can't cast such a wide net.  Would the %USERNAME% variable even be any help in this regard?

[CVannest]

Daniel,

Thanks. I did think about going that route, and will investigate it deeper now.

It would be great if there was a wildcard for C:\Users\%profilename%

Thanks,
Carl

[Daniel_B]

Custom scanning currently doesn't provide any wildcards for user profiles. As some users of Lansweeper asked for it, our development might consider adding this feature. Currently the full path for scanned files has to be entered. The only wildcards available are %windir%, %programfiles% and %programfiles(x86)%. This is necessary to limit the load on your network.

You might be able to accomplish your goal with a VBS script which searches for files in user profile folders locally on the client machines and writes the result into a text file on a file share.