Antivirus
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Antivirus engines are not only common with windows. Also with linux it is necessary to scan dokuments an files. Even more important, since plattform independent viruses and worms are getting more common due to framework based software engeneering:
Read about:
- ClamAV
- Free Avast
- Free AVG
- F-Prot
- Bit Defender
I by myself am using clamav and bitdefender due to its very good integration in the debian package system
ClamAV
Use the Ubuntu software center ;-)
Bit Defender
sudo echo "deb http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/ bitdefender non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bitdefender.list
wget http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/bd.key.asc sudo apt-key add bd.key.asc rm bd.key.asc
apt-get update && \ sudo apt-get install bitdefender-scanner-gui bitdefender-samba bitdefender-mail
Crash on 64bit system
Due to a problem in 64bit environment do
- Post #8 and on side two (!): http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=30005
rm /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so ln -s /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so.linux-x86_64 /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so
sudo bash
rm /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so
cat /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/versions.dat.* |awk '/bdcore.so.linux/{print $3}'|while read bdcore_so;do touch /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/$bdcore_so;bdscan --update;ln -s /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/$bdcore_so /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so;done
exit
Tip: if that did not work, first run
bdscan --update
in a terminal and accept the licence!