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Perry Nium · Joined: 03 Aug 2010 Posts: 24

Pleased to say I managed to get this working, thanks guys. Nice to have an antivirus scan I can run from Puppy to give my USB drives and Windows C: disk a good search.

1) Install fprot-6-Lucid from Puppy Package Manager
2) Open a terminal ("Console" icon)
3) cd /opt/f-prot
4) /opt/f-prot/install-f-prot.pl (this updated to the latest definition file)

Then, this scanned my second USB stick :
fpscan /mnt/sdc1

Note that step 4) didn't work until step 3) moved into the right folder - from any other location it complained about file paths.

Cool

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=448530#448530

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

Welcome to Puppy, jemesright, it looks like you're starting to enjoy Puppy. Smile

karm2865 · Joined: 20 Mar 2011 Posts: 57

trying to use this to scan the Windows XP pro partition of my hard drive
lupa 5.2.8 full install dual booted with windows XP pro with grub 4 doss
downloaded and installed
opend terminal

fpscan sda1

F-PROT Antivirus version 6.3.3.5015 (built: 2009-12-23T13-43-55)

FRISK Software International (C) Copyright 1989-2009
Engine version: 4.5.1.85
Arguments: sda1

Can not get handle to virus signature file: Invalid parameter
Can not continue.
# ^C
# cd /opt/f-prot
# fpscan sda1

F-PROT Antivirus version 6.3.3.5015 (built: 2009-12-23T13-43-55)

FRISK Software International (C) Copyright 1989-2009
Engine version: 4.5.1.85
Arguments: sda1

Can not get handle to virus signature file: Invalid parameter
Can not continue.

okay what am i doing wrong? still all fuzzy with this command line stuff.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

I have also tried out f-prot but maybe the xf-prot version.
While I did that I found a thread and forgot to bookmark it
and it was about many such anti-vir programs and the winner
was Bitdefender and as number to or second runner up was
avast but them did not even mention F-prot.

Maybe because it is a CLI mainly program?

Nwo I fail to find that thread. Searched for four hours.
used three different search engines.

What did happen to that thread? Where is it?
Avast is one of the best. F-prot was not even considered.

Ooops Avast really is in the rescue versio Avast-1.3.0

So that is a good thing. Now I only need to get the email address to give to avast then?

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758

Nooby if u want a pet of avast I can post it up tonight for u. The problem wit bitdefender is its not free like avast is. I tried f-prot cause I was gonna put it in instead of avast but too many false positives and it missed some that avast caught.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

karm2865 · Joined: 20 Mar 2011 Posts: 57

After deleting and re-installing F-Prot I got it to work no clue why maybe a bad down load or install the first time.

if it is not a huge bother DPUP5520 pet of avast would be nice.
I like to have more than one antivirus so I can double check i find that what one might miss the other often picks up on.

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758

No problem you will have it in a few hours.

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758

Here's the thread for the pet you wanted http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=570117#570117. After you install it you need to reboot (to run the update patch) then run the Avast Update because I stripped out the AV Signature File in order to save size on uploading/downloading.

Edit: I forgot you need a key too before you try to update the av database.

karm2865 · Joined: 20 Mar 2011 Posts: 57

works fine scanning my 1TB external hard drive now

Many thanks.DPUP5520 saved me headaches and much hare puling.

BarryK · Posted: Tue 04 Oct 2011, 03:36 Post subject:

There is already an Avast PET in the Puppy 'common' repo:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02494

stuart_c · Joined: 08 May 2012 Posts: 5