I periodically scan Ubuntu Karmic with Avast for Linux. I just updated Avast. After the update, this appeared: "An error occurred in avast! engine: Invalid argument" I completely removed Avast, reinstalled it, and the same thing appeared. It just won't run. Any ideas?
Well, I did a "locate avast", got rid of remnants and reinstalled. It ran, but after updating I got this message: "avast! engine failed to reinitialize after database upgrade. The application will terminate now" Obviously (I think) an update issue. edit: This issue is on their forums. No reply yet.
Hi, Are you running Avast to scan for Windows Virus? In that case, there are other offerings from Avira, Bit Defender and others as well.
Try this .. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=22da71d9b766e8cbbcb5b6f533b44890&topic=57775.0
Yes, I scan for Windows' virus. I download a ton of PDFs. I'm going to look at the other offerings. Thanks, Ocky. I'm going to test that solution now. Regards,
I'm trying BitDefender. Have removed Avast. deb http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/ bitdefender non-free wget http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/bd.key.asc sudo apt-key add bd.key.asc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bitdefender-scanner-gui ********************************************************************* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitDefender
Yes it's free - but you need a licence key Don't know if it needs renewing after 1 year. http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Products/ScannerLicense/ http://www.bitdefender.com/world/business/antivirus-for-unices.html OPTIMIZED TO SUPPORT ALL MAJOR UNIX-BASED PLATFORMS BitDefender optimizes their security solutions specific to each platform, ensuring minimal system degradation and maximum operational performance. To ensure compatibility with all major UNIX-based platforms the BitDefender’s UNIX-based solutions are delivered as rpm, deb and generic .tar.run packages. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Operating System: Linux, FreeBSD Linux Kernel: 2.4.x or 2.6.x (recommended) FreeBSD: 5.4 (or newer with compat5x) glibc: version 2.3.1 or newer, and libstdc++5 from gcc 3.2.2 or newer Processor: x86 compatible 300 MHz; i686 500MHz; amd64(x86_64) Minimum Memory: 128 MB Minimum Free Disk Space: 100MB Supported Distributions: RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 or newer SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 or newer Fedora Core 1 or newer Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 or newer Slackware 9.x or newer Mandrake/Mandriva 9.1 or newer FreeBSD 5.4 or newer
hello i been using avast and bitdefender more than 2 years in linux for additional scanning windows drive you need to register to license and get free license after that it works for a year please check this same works for deb as well https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=265473 there is also a option as avg if you like http://free.avg.com/gb-en/download?prd=afl also please check this one as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
Just installed BitDefender, updated virus defs. and ran scan of /home. it's very fast and has a great GUI. One thing I don't understand, after entering the licence key I received by email it says free but remaining 52 days instead of 365 days. Oh well I'll wait and see what gives after 52 days. BTW. To get r/click nautilus context menu :- http://unices.bitdefender.com/2009/06/01/let-there-be-nautilus-extension-packages/ Edit: It's fast... Used command line:- bdscan /home/userx --log=/home/userx/bdscan.log --verbose --exclude-ext=rnd Results: Folders: 0 Files: 86007 Packed: 3542 Archives: 1481 Infected files: 0 Suspect files: 0 Warnings: 0 I/O errors: 0 Files/second: 754 Scan time: 00:01:54
Now that clamav is flagged by Secunia https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1655438&postcount=1 all the more reason to replace it with the excellent BitDefender for those that want an AV. Updates are extremely fast and incremental. Note - there is not yet a deb package for the right click context menu entry if using (U)buntu 9.10.
More human readable perhaps ? .. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9087300&postcount=1 Follow the instructions and then reboot should fix it. I must say BitDefender is way better. They have really given their linux versions some thought.
Yes, that forum post is more readable. lol But what you posted the first time was relatively easy to understand as well, I ran across that when I had the same problem and google'd it.
R/click nautilus extension (context menu entry for BitDefender) now available for Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 version. http://unices.bitdefender.com/2009/06/01/let-there-be-nautilus-extension-packages/ md5: 1cae9549d1ff94c3c2a1617ae9ede249