Avast – Antivirus application for Foresight Linux

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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:

Registration

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.

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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.

Posted by Tomas Forsman   @   1 June 2009 2 comments
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Jan 3, 2010
13:32
#1 Marcus :

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

Author Jan 9, 2010
17:38

We think its related to 64bit issue. As the package provides only 32bit, but we are looking in to it. Thanks for the report.

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