Ubuntu scanning usb disks

system · 2007-12-03T16:43:08.000Z

Hi

I am new to Linux and have successfully installed Avast version 1.0.8 on my Ubuntu 6.06LTS system.
My problem is that I cannot work out how to scan flash disks!
I am used to windows where I could right click and select scan with Avast but in the linux version I can only run the scanner and select

Home Directory
Entire System
Selected Folders - which does not show the usbdisk!

Please help - I want to be able to scan flash disks before they are used on our windows network.

Thanks

Alan

Lisandro · 2007-12-03T16:48:52.000Z

The USB disk should be at /mnt/ or /mount/ or /media/ folder. You can select from there.
As far I know, there isn’t a context menu to right click as in Windows.
I use Ubuntu but 7.10
Welcome to avast forums.

system · 2007-12-05T18:24:29.000Z

I can’t say about Ubuntu, but on my openSUSE 10.3 box there is a scan directory option in the context menu, but I never use it the GUI scanner and I have our differences. Take my advice, save yourself time, system resources, and several headaches and use the command line scanner, all you have to do is type in the following commands:
sudo avast-update
sudo avast /(location of where your system mounts to)/(name of your USB drive)

If I were to do it on my computer I would have to type “sudo avast /media/disk” to scan it, because SUSE mounts to /media (others could be /mnt, /mount) (as Tech pointed out), then I have my system mounts my USB disk in a directory called “disk”.

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