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.
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?
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,