Using Avast Anti Virus

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Contents 1 Requirements 2 Installing Avast Anti Virus 3 Avast command-line HOWTO 4 See Also

Avast Anti Virus Linux edition is a virus scanner and remover only, it does not check memory or provide any on-access protection. But it is useful if you like me have a dual-boot configuration with Windows, by allowing you to scan your Windows operating system files without having to actually start Windows. This is very useful if you think your Windows installation is infected or even worse Windows itself is infected and you want to save some documents without spreading the infection.

Requirements

• Avast Anti Virus for Linux

Installing Avast Anti Virus

Download Avast Anti Virus (32-bit), right click and then click Open with Install Software on the pop up menu.

Avast command-line HOWTO

• Example 1

Scan all files in the /bin directory for viruses with no automatic action upon finding any infections.

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• Example 2

The following example will scan the entire system and if an infection or infections are found, avast! will automatically delete the infected files.

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• Example 3

This example scans only the /usr directories content and not any sub-directories inside of /usr

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• Example 4

This example updates avast's virus database from the command-line

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See Also

• http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-for-linux-edition.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast!
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_protection