Norton Internet Security 21 "Scan Now"

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I've just installed version 11 beta, but it looks like the instructions are unchanged from version 10 - so here goes:

IMPORTANT: the path given in step 9 must be updated to reflect the installed-version of Norton. You will need to update the path whenever the location of the Norton files changes, i.e. after both minor and major Norton version-updates.

  1. From the Settings menu, select File Types
  2. Double-click on the second entry "(NONE) All files and folders"
  3. Click the Context Menu tab
  4. Click the New button
  5. Enter a name for your Action, e.g. Norton Internet Security Scan Now
  6. For Type, select "Run an Opus function (not supported in Explorer)"
  7. For Function, select "Standard Function (Opus or external)"
  8. Browse to the location of navw32.exe, select the file and click Open
  9. Add {F} to the end of the command. For the current version of NIS I have the following (the quotes are required):
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\Engine\21.1.0.18\navw32.exe" {F}
  10. Click OK
  11. Click OK again
  12. Click Close (to close the Files Types dialog)

When you right-click on a file or folder you should see your custom action in the list (probably at the bottom). Select it and your folder or files should be scanned.

Some folder and file-names will cause the scan to fail. Aside from temporarily changing the file/folder name I'm not sure if there's a good solution to this.