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Why would I use Antivirus in a Linux system? Some of you may be wonder why would we install an Antivirus while Linux is a virus free operating system. Well, let me give you some reasons why it is some important to use an antivirus for Linux OS’s. Linux is Virus free, right? But, not as secure as you think in some cases. There are so few virus programs available to infect a Linux system, but they might do only minor issues, and don’t any harmful or serious damage to the Linux system as like in a Windows or other operating system. You may have chance to copy some files/folders from a net-cafe system, and want to use them in your home Linux computer.
In this case, your home computer installed with Linux OS might be attacked by the viruses which you copied from the net-cafe system along with some files. Still, many people use Windows OS for some reasons, like gaming. In such cases, if you have dual boot(Windows & Linux), It is advisable to use an antivirus program in your Linux system. Prevention is better than cure, right?. If your Linux server acts like a central file server or something else in your home or organization network and connected with many different kind of computers(Linux, WIndows, Mac OS X etc.), then It is also recommended to use antivirus to prevent the unwanted virus issues. Install AVG Free Antivirus On Linux Download the latest edition depending upon your distribution from the. Go to the download location and enter the following commands to install AVG Free edition.
Be mindful that all commands should be run with root user privileges. I tested this article on Ubuntu 14.04, and also, I have included the installation steps for other distributions too. On DEB based systems: apt-get install gdebi wget gdebi avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.deb Sample output: Reading package lists.
Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done Building data structures. Done Building data structures.
Done AVG Anti-Virus for Linux/FreeBSD Do you want to install the software package? y/N: y Selecting previously unselected package avg2013flx.
(Reading database. 160172 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.deb. Unpacking avg2013flx (2013.3118).
Setting up avg2013flx (2013.3118). Installing 'avgd' service initscripts. Registering 'avgd' service to runlevels.
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/avgd. /etc/rc0.d/K20avgd -./init.d/avgd /etc/rc1.d/K20avgd -./init.d/avgd /etc/rc6.d/K20avgd -./init.d/avgd /etc/rc2.d/S20avgd -./init.d/avgd /etc/rc3.d/S20avgd -./init.d/avgd /etc/rc4.d/S20avgd -./init.d/avgd /etc/rc5.d/S20avgd -./init.d/avgd Please do configuration with /opt/avg/av/bin/avgsetup Generating unique user id Processing command line.
Cfg file not specified using /opt/avg/av/cfg/diagcfg.xml. New installation ID succesffully generated. Starting avgd.
ok Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1). On RPM bases systems: wget avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.rpm rpm -i avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.rpm Install AVG from ‘binary’ file. Download the tar files and compile it your self as shown below. Wget tar xzvf avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.tar.gz Change to the location where you extracted the tar file.
Run the following command to install it./install.sh Install AVG from ‘.sh’ file: Download the.sh file. Set executable permission. Wget chmod +x avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.sh Then, install it using command:./avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.sh On BSD systems: Download the AVG program for FreeBSD: wget tar xzvf avg2013ffb-r3115-a6155.i386.tar.gz Change to the location where you extracted the tar file, and run the following command to install it./install.sh Configure AVG As you see in the installation method on Ubuntu, AVG is installed and started, but not configured. You may see the output that reads: Please do configuration with /opt/avg/av/bin/avgsetup Run the following command to configure AVG antivirus. Sudo /opt/avg/av/bin/avgsetup Sample output: Choose what you want to do.
In our case, let us setup On-access for Real-time protection. AVG command line setup Copyright (c) 2013 AVG Technologies CZ Your location: Start Welcome to the AVG for Linux/FreeBSD Deployment Wizard. The Wizard will help you deploy AVG according to your needs.