2014 server products

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Good news, everyone!
avast! is proud to introduce you the new linux server product line for 2014:

avast
The avast package provides the core scanner component and a command line scan utility. It can be used for on demand scanning or mail server integration using amavis.

New since previous version:

  • Avast 8 engine
  • Native x86_64 support
  • Differential VPS updates

avast-proxy
The avast-proxy package provides a transparent network traffic filtering proxy designed for gateway/router usage. Using avast-proxy, you can scan a whole computer network traffic from a single machine including secured connections!

Core features:

  • HTTP, IMAP and POP3 protocol support
  • Support for secured connections (uses certificate resigning)
  • High performance - designed for typical LAN usage
  • Well tested - daily used by almost a milion avast! for Mac users

avast-fss
The avast-fss package provides a fanotify based „on write“ filesystem shield designed for fileserver usage.
The typical target field for avast-fss are SMB/NFS file servers.

Core features:

  • High performance design
  • Multicore support

Download
DEB repository:
http://deb.avast.com/lin/repo

RPM repository (RHEL):
http://rpm.avast.com/lin/repo/dists/rhel/release

RPM repository (SUSE):
http://rpm.avast.com/lin/repo/dists/suse/release

PGP public key:


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Trial license
You can obtain a one month trial license on the product page at http://www.avast.com/linux-server-antivirus.

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rpm for avast-fss?

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Packages: avast-fss_1.0.0-1_amd64.debbeta
On Intel fss will be not work?
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It should work.

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What is “fanotify”?

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See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_API

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The RPM package is build and tested on CentOS (RHEL) 6 which comes with kernel 2.6.32 and has therefore no fanotify support.

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x86_64 and amd64 are the same architectures. The difference is only the package naming convention on Debian/RHEL.
In other words, both packages will work on AMD and Intel CPUs.

Note: In the final release, there will be also packages for the i386 architecture.

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I just wanted to shine some light for you guys on AMD64. AMD64 is software extensions that allow 64 bit code to run on 32 bit processors. So, in x86 architecture, there are no 64 bit AMD CPUs, and there are no 64 bit Intel CPUs. Intel EMT64 is the AMD64 code relicensed to Intel, so they may also run 64 bit code on their 32 bit processor. They are exactly the same. The only 64 bit CPU is the Intel Itanic, but it is not x86 architecture.Sincerely,

J.R. “AutoSandbox Guy” Guthrie

“At this point in time, the Internet should be regarded as an Enemy Weapons System!”

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Do you mean Intel Itanium :slight_smile:

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@tumic: It is possible to collaborate with team from here (https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/) to share malware definition for linux?

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Hello,

It’s nice to see Avast for Linux finally updated, even in Command Line Interface.

But please could you explain how to use it ? Where to save the license.txt file, how to activate it ?

How to scan the computer / a specific folder ? How to update the virus definitions ?

Even with the “man” help pages, I don’t understand.

If I run : scan -v
I get the answer : 40707

With : scan -V
connect(): /var/run/avast/scan.sock: No such file or directory

I’ve downloaded and installed the deb of avast core scanner only.

Thanks ! :slight_smile:

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The license must be located at /etc/avast/license.avastlic, its printed
into the console when you install the deb/rpm package. Additionally you can
find this info in the README file at /usr/share/doc/avast/.

The reason why retrieving the VPS version (scan -V) does not work is most
probably that the avast scan service is not running because it can not find the license
file. See the system log file (avast uses syslog) for details.

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As I understand after release of commercial avast 2014 for Linux will be killed freeware version of avast for linux? Or no?

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I have no idea how that project works, but If all you need are MD5 hashes of infected files, than you can scan a file using avast and compute the file’s hash using md5sum, if the file is reported as infected.

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I think you may need to rename license.avastlic.txt to just license.avastlic before copying across to /etc/avast as tumic advised above. That is the name the avast.conf file seems to be looking for.

Also reboot. That got avast running for me, and scanning now seems to work.

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Also, will that also kill avast! version 4 updates?

Sincerely,

J.R. “AutoSandbox Guy” Guthrie

“At this point in time, the Internet should be regarded as an Enemy Weapons System!”

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It’s one of best malware/rootkit detector for linux. I think avast can benefit from md5 hashes from that project, it will improve detection rate.

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avast! version 4 VPS will be available until there are any avast! products using it, including windows products.
At the moment there are still such products, but the maintenance is very limited. So the new linux products are
not the final nail in the VPS 4 coffin, but a very significant one.

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Really optimistic about this program. Couple of questions and points.

[ol]- Does the command line version running in debian detect web based threats? Does it use the same database for scanning say blocked urls?

  • How is updating of the signature database accomplished
  • Should Avast detect the Eicar signture within the body of an HTML file? Is there a signature I could use to test scanning of HTML files?[/ol]