Comments on Virus Protection With avast! Linux Home Edition On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

This is really great and helpful to people like me who are new to linux. I have successfully installed Avast antivirus software on my Ubuntu 7.10.

To, the administrator

"Buddy, you can issue the same with the name for Ubuntu 7.10, because i have tried it" 

You can check av-comparitives, avast detection rate is not what it used to be. Avira is killing avast and is available for free download, no registration. 

and the avira linux offering is.....?

Avira free anti-virus for linux...

http://www.free-av.com/en/download/download_servers.php

and how do i instruct Avast to repair an infected file or quarentine a virus?

12-01-09 

Thanks to the developers and owners of Avast for releasing their hard-work to the world for free. So again it is basically FREE of charge, update is unrestricted, it basically scans executables as well as archives.

Pretty cool, huh? But what about real-time monitoring where files are scanned on the fly?

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All of the antivirus programs for Linux I have found (Antivir, AVG, nod32) seem to need dazuko in order to provide real-time on-access virus protection.

Dazuko is a "stackable file system" and is a nightmare to install, if I understand right it allows the antivirus real-time access to the files being read/written. If you want to try to install it, I'd recommend trying first on a Linux installation that you don't care about (because you could mess it up, mine is limping).

thank you for your valuable guidance to install avast antivirus.

In the Launcher Properties window, type in a name for the application (e.g. Avast Antivirus) and avastgui as the command, then click on Close:

"avastqui"  please command no.........."?..... avast ......"?...... all ok "avast"

little englich sorry

thanks very much. i search the information for a long time. good luck for you.

Thanks alot worked perfectly new user to ubuntu

thanks a lot...

This is One of the most (maybe the most) excellent application operation guides I,ve ever been confronted with since I started working in the field of computer and information systems development in 1967 :)

Thank You

Kent Åsberg