Hello All!!
I am a complete newbie to Linux. I have d’loaded Avast Home edition and having been a Windows user since version 1.0, I cannot see or find the Avast icon in the Sys Tray, nor does it update itself (as in Windows XP).
I have seen somewhere that it IS installed, but I don’t know how to access it so as to configure it.
Should I refer this to the Linux community or can someone in this forum help me.
Any assistance would be welcome.
Thanks.
Hi nospmas1939,
http://www.debianadmin.com/avast-antivirus-for-ubuntu-desktop.html
The Linux version is an on-demand scanner, so there’s no icon or updates unless you actually run the program.
Hello again FreewheelinFrank,
Followed your instructions and have now got it installed, updated and running. Thank you very much!!!
I just ran it on my spare Ubuntu PC and the “Results of last scan” list, showed hundreds of entries in which the 3-column list had “Error while scanning” in the “Result” column for all the entries. The “Operation” column showed a variety of errors: [1] No such device; [2] Permission denied; [3] Invalid argument; and, [4] ARC archive is corrupted.
In all cases, when I right-clicked any of those entries, I got an Avast! Error window saying: “An error occured in avast! engine. No such file or directory”. The concurrent open 2nd window is the one that shows: Move/Rename, Delete, Move to chest, Repair (which is greyed out).
I am now totally confused. What does all this mean, and is there a correction that I should perform? What do you make of it?
Thanks in anticipation.
Regards,
What exactly were you trying to scan?
You really only need to scan the ‘Home’ directory in Ubuntu, as other areas are inaccessible to malware. I seem to remember that trying to scan other areas produces errors like these.
Yes, “permission denied” is pretty common when user tries to scan the whole root-tree. But, the “ARC corrupted” is strange, could you, nospmas, send us the culprit-file for further analysis? thanks in advance,
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