Avast! antivirus offers a free desktop edition for Linux.
avast! antivirus software represents complete virus protection, offering full desktop security including a resident shield. Daily automatic updates ensure continuous data protection against all types of malware and spyware.
So lets start install it, as its a new build for Foresight, we need to install it from terminal and grab it from 2-devel repo. Open terminal and write:
sudo conary update avast=@fl:2-devel
After installation, you got a menu entry for it. Start it and you will see this:
So click on “click here to obtain license key”
After that is done, then you are in buisness for updating virus database and start scanning.
Easy to handle and easy settings for it, so give it a spin if you think you might have viruses that your computer ships around your network or something.
Firefox 3.5.7
Ubuntu 9.10We think its related to 64bit issue. As the package provides only 32bit, but we are looking in to it. Thanks for the report.
13:32
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.243.0 Safari/532.4
Tried to open it up via the menus without success so I tried to enter using the terminal. It gives me the following messages:
[mac@localhost ~]$ sudo avast
/usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avast: error while loading shared libraries: libavastengine-4.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[mac@localhost ~]$ avastgui
/usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avastgui: error while loading shared libraries: libesmtp.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory