I know there isn’t a resident for avast…
I know that Linux can (at least manage) work without one.
But, Grisoft has made one with Dazuko driver (http://www.dazuko.org).
Is there any plans for this in the future? :
Hello Tech! It’s all right I guess to have a resident scanner if you want it but it sort of defeats the purpose of adding more resource needs to an operating system that doesn’t need it. You’re thinking like a MS Windows user. 99.99% of virus are Windows based. Outside of scanning incoming email to catch mostly harmless Windows virus I see no purpose of a resident scanner at this point if you are running Linux applications. Look into using an old PC as a firewall for your main computer(s). Now, that would be a challenge that would result in great protection. Linux is sort of boring when it comes to security.
No… I want to test… I want to have more features… If AVG has, why not avast?
There is also a 0.01% possibility isn’t it? Besides this, Linux is becoming more popular and we won’t have peaceful times forever…
Configure this with avast Linux version is a nightmare…
You can use Avast! antivirus to scan email with Kmail. Dublin wrote the script for it on this forum. The Open Source ClamAV with the KlamAV GUI is also is set up to scan email. As for AVG and resident scanner capabilities? AntiVir has the same capabilities as well. All of which scan Linux files mainly looking for Windows exceptions like looking for a keg of wine at a beer distillery. But you want to test it and that is fine but as you are aware you will need the km_dazuko package that comes with your SuSE distribution. Also, check Antivir for Linux which is the first to use resident scanning for Linux as far as I know. I think the reason why Avast! doesn’t have it yet is because of the fact that it isn’t necessary. As for the future of Linux security, the operating system has been around since the early 1990s and nobody has figured out how to exploit it from the outside. Most Linux vulnerabilities are from within like someone sitting in front of the PC and physical doing damage. Even that is sort of hard to do without the root password. Usually, when there is a security update to the kernel itself it is for vulnerabilities not associated with virus. The only practical use of antivirus software on Linux is if you run primarily Linux and want an antivirus scanner to scan your home Linux folder and your Windows drive or partition while in Linux. Windows can’t even read a Linux drive.
I’ve never managed to install it correctly 
I’ll take a look. Thanks.
I’m using Kubuntu now… I’ve left the 10.1 version of SUSE behing after too much headache… version 10 was better and more stable for me…
It’s my next tentative indeed… but, as you can see, it won’t harm if Dublin can drop some words here… I have having to change to Antivir instead of avast.
Do you think this will ‘solve’ Windows Vista exploits too?
Ext2 Installable File System For Windows 1.10b does it 
Well, I don’t use Avast! for Linux very much any more. But, it is slowly heading in the right direction though. As for Vista? I haven’t even seen it yet. Thanks for the Ext2 source.
Vista asks for the user password (even for the Administrator) when the action could ‘damage’ or ‘modify’ the system: load drivers, install programs, etc.
I couldn’t post a link for it at that time… http://www.fs-driver.org/
Dublin, any forecast about the resident protection?
September, October
Wow… Great 8)
Another reason to me to take a serious work on translating the Help files… I’m lazy these days 