installing bitdefender
Alexandra Zaharia
f0rg3r at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 10:01:13 UTC 2008
On 2/26/08, Tomoki Taniguchi <tomoki.taniguchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> has anyone recently installed bitdefender on ubuntu?
>
> i was following the instructions on
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitDefender
> but the link in the howto is no longer working
>
> I went to the BitDefender site to see if i could find the free linux edition
> but I couldn't find it...
>
> has BitDefender stopped offering free linux products?
Hello Tomoki,
The location on the BitDefender servers is changed. Also, this Linux
free tool is now called "BitDefender Scanner".
The HowTo you pointed to is indeed outdated. I'll check and see if I'm
able to edit it with my LaunchPad account.
Here's what you need to do:
You need to have wget installed on your system:
sudo aptitude install wget
And now you need to get the BitDefender-Scanner from its new location:
wget http://download.bitdefender.com/SMB/Workstation_Security_and_Management/BitDefender_Antivirus_Scanner_for_Unices/Unix/Current/EN/Version_7.x/Linux/BitDefender-scanner-7.5-4.linux-gcc3x.i586.deb.run
Notice BitDefender now changed the package format - it's not a simple
.deb you need to install with dpkg, it's a .run file, namely a "kit"
that you... "run". First, make it executable:
chmod 755 BitDefender-scanner-7.5-4.linux-gcc3x.i586.deb.run
And now, install the .run:
sudo ./BitDefender-scanner-7.5-4.linux-gcc3x.i586.deb.run
You will get an EULA that you have to agree with by typing "accept"
and, after the install is finished, you'll be able to run BitDefender
Scanner from /opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdscan
My suggestion is that you first try a signature update:
sudo /opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdscan --update
For a brief listing of accepted commands, run
/opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdscan --help
and for further reading, check out the files in
/opt/BitDefender-scanner/share/doc/
HTH,
Alex.
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