How do I add a virus scanner to winrar?

WinRAR could not find any antivirus software and you need to specify a scanner name and parameters manually. While how to add a virus scanner to winrar?

WinRAR is a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage and control archive files. It is completely supports rar and zip. In addition, it offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives. With recovery record and recovery volumes, you can reconstruct even physically damaged archives. Virus scanner in winrar unpacks one or several archives to temporary folder and checks contents of this folder with a third party virus scanner, which must be installed on a user's computer.

Guide on how do I add a virus scanner to winrar.

Step 1: Download Winrar 3.90 free, then install it on your computer.

Step 2: Double click winrar icon, make it running.

Step 3: Click Options in the menu bar, then from the drop-down menu choose Settings... item on the top of drop-down menu.

Step 4: Pick Security tab, at the Miscellaneous section, check the checkbox of Propose to select virus scanner.

Step 5: Click on OK button.

From now on, In the archive management mode it processes only the currently opened archive, in the file management mode all archives found in selected files and folders will be processed. WinRAR proposes to select virus scanner name and parameters every time when activating the virus scanning command. If you use only one antivirus, it is possible to skip the antivirus selection step by turning this option off