FINALLY - Avast! Antivirus for Linux

theMidas · #1 14th March 2006, 08:02 AM

Looks like our friends at Avast have finally released their Linux Home Edition virus scanner. If you've been using Avast on your xp system you know they've put together a top notch product. I, for one, am anxious to take it for a spin. I'm hoping to install on my system tomorrow? Anybody try it out already? What's the verdict? Time to retire the clam!?!?

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-l...rkstation.html

#2 14th March 2006, 09:01 AM

then again why would you need an antivirus unless you were maybe running a Mail server?

MountainMan101 · #3 14th March 2006, 02:15 PM

Maybe you have a home linux server that you share with windows machines. You'd want to virus scan the shared drive on the server rather than get the clients to do it. In fact, a linux virus checker is a very sensible thing as the windows ones can get infected themselves.

pparks1 · #4 14th March 2006, 05:49 PM

Yes, that was posted here some time back..

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ighlight=avast

theMidas · #5 15th March 2006, 08:04 AM

Haven't had a chance to try the install yet. Anybody check it out yet and have anything to report?

mnisay · #6 15th March 2006, 08:57 AM

mmmm...would this new linux antivirus version last?
would like to check their website now and see more about it.

anyone went ahead and come back with some reports?

PeTzZz · #7 15th March 2006, 11:39 PM

Screenshot

The font is somehow too small.

***bob*** · #8 15th March 2006, 11:54 PM

Well, it took me all of two minutes to bork my Avast yesterday. It installs fine and created a menu item, however clicking on it did not start the program. If started in a terminal, it complains that you need to run 'avastgui' to paste in the identification number. Fine; pasted and all was good for a few minutes until I decided to kill the scan and made the mistake of closing the terminal prematurely. Restart immediately required me to re-enter the id number and then a looping error about log length. Removing all the logs did not solve the problem, nor did a reboot. Next removed the program, however today I attempted to reinstall and was met with the same immediate errors. It's now uninstalled until the next slash and burn of FC.

Don't throw away ClamAV just yet!

Edit: Found the problem - hidden folder; removed and now it loads okay again. Will test a bit more, since this was my favorite AV in my Windows days. Got to say that the scan of /home was a lot quicker than the AVG linux version.

steve1961 · #9 29th March 2006, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by justol'bob

Well, it took me all of two minutes to bork my Avast yesterday. It installs fine and created a menu item, however clicking on it did not start the program. If started in a terminal, it complains that you need to run 'avastgui' to paste in the identification number. Fine; pasted and all was good for a few minutes until I decided to kill the scan and made the mistake of closing the terminal prematurely. Restart immediately required me to re-enter the id number and then a looping error about log length. Removing all the logs did not solve the problem, nor did a reboot. Next removed the program, however today I attempted to reinstall and was met with the same immediate errors. It's now uninstalled until the next slash and burn of FC.

Don't throw away ClamAV just yet!

Edit: Found the problem - hidden folder; removed and now it loads okay again. Will test a bit more, since this was my favorite AV in my Windows days. Got to say that the scan of /home was a lot quicker than the AVG linux version.

I tried installing Avast but got the following error:

[root@localhost steve]# avastgui
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/avastgui: line 115: /usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/: is a directory

Yum provides libc.so.6 said the package comes with glibc, which is already installed. Any suggestions, and what was the hidden file folder?

#10 29th March 2006, 03:41 PM

Got the same error as steve1961, with both versions (rpm and tar.gz). Any ideas??

***bob*** · #11 29th March 2006, 04:18 PM

Nope; it was working on FC4, but won't with FC5 - tried 'yum provides libc.so.6' and found it's already installed; then tried 'yum localinstall *.rpm' and supposedly the dependency issues were resolved but then came up with a 'public key not installed error'. Poked around a bit to see if I could find where to put that public key they'd sent..no luck. Fortunately, viruses are not a concern for now, so I'll put this one on the back burner.

steve1961 · #12 29th March 2006, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by justol'bob

Nope; it was working on FC4, but won't with FC5 - tried 'yum provides libc.so.6' and found it's already installed; then tried 'yum localinstall *.rpm' and supposedly the dependency issues were resolved but then came up with a 'public key not installed error'. Poked around a bit to see if I could find where to put that public key they'd sent..no luck. Fortunately, viruses are not a concern for now, so I'll put this one on the back burner.

Thanks justol'bob. I thought I was missing something. Looks like I'll stick with clamav for now.

blue13130 · #13 29th March 2006, 06:32 PM

works perfect on FC4 for me

steve1961 · #14 29th March 2006, 06:42 PM

Must just be FC5. I've emailed Avast's support people to let them know and to see if there's a fix.