HOWTO: Install AVG free anti-virus

[Healey]

Hi
Thanks for your reply

Yes I checked it also and found it was a low risk however I would like to remove it so that I do not pass it on to somebody with windows.

Is there no way to remove it ???

Surely if there is no way to remove a virus then what is the point in scanning for them !!!

Seems strange

Regards

Healey

[Perfect Storm]

http://free.grisoft.cz/softw/70free/...ma_en_71_3.pdf

It's only for testing/finding. That's why it says test instead of scan . Either you delete the infected file or use F-prot for removing and dis-infection or use AVG commandline.

avgscan -clean <paths>

I don't know if the full version have a clean option in gui.

Command-line scanner:

avgscan [options] <path or file to scan>

-scan Scan test /path,path/
-heur Heuristic Analysis /path,path/
-exclude Exclude path or files from scan
-@ Command file /file name/
-ext test these extensions /for example EXT=*/
-noext do not test these extensions /for example NOEXT=JPG/
-smart Smart scan
-arc test archives
-rt test run-time compressions
-pup detection of potentially unwanted programs
-clean clean automatically
-arcw report archives
-rtw report run-time compressions
-macrow report macros
-pwdw Report password-protected files
-changew Report changes
-ignlocked Ignore locked files
-report Report to file /file name/
-repappend Append to the report file
-repok report uninfected files as OK
-stoplevel Pause on detection /1-n/
-h Display help on this topic
--help Display help on this topic

examples:
1) next command scans whole directory /home and checks all files, including
archives and run-time compressed files

$ avgscan -ext=* -rt -arc /home

2) same as example above, but with heuristic analysis

$ avgscan -ext=* -rt -arc -heur /home

3) same as example above, but saves scanning results to the 'results.log' file

$ avgscan -ext=* -rt -arc -report results.log -heur /home

[Healey]

Hi
Many thanks for your reply

This is what i did - I assume it did not work:

avgscan -clean /usr/lib/wine/wintab32.dll.so
AVG7 Anti-Virus command line scanner
Copyright (c) 2006 GRISOFT, s.r.o.
Program version 7.1.24, engine 718
Virus Database: Version 267.0.0/301 2006-04-04
License type is FREE.
/usr/lib/wine/wintab32.dll.so Virus found Akuku $(@FileError) /usr/lib/wine/wintab32.dll.so
Tested: 1 files, 0 sectors
Infections: 1
Errors: 0


What should I do now ??

Thanks

Healey

[Perfect Storm]

In theory it should clean it, but you might do it with sudo if it's in /usr/lib/wine. Try run it again. With sudo permission.

Question how did it come there in the first place? Did you run wine with sudo?

[OMRebel]

Healey - I just got the exact same thing. Using -clean didn't do any good for me, so I just deleted the file using:

sudo rm /usr/lib/wine/wintab32.dll.so

I'm gonna uninstall Wine and reinstall it. Gonna find out where it's coming from.

[Healey]

Hi
Thanks for your reply OMRebel

I wanted to delete this file, but as i am new at Linux I was not sure if this would stop wine working or even worse perhaps !!

Is it ok to do this ??

Thanks

Healey

[Perfect Storm]

As I said before I'll recommend you try to scan it with another anti-virus application. It could be a hoax.

[OMRebel]

I completely removed Wine through Synaptic, reinstalled it, and it is still finding Akuku in that same file. Either this is a false positive, or the repo has an infected file.

The deb it was using when reinstalling was showing as /wine_0.9.11~winehq1-1_i386.deb

The file it is reporting it on is consistent: /usr/lib/wine/wintab32.dll.so

[OMRebel]

AI - I copied the file to a floppy and scanned it on my XP machine with Trend OfficeScan, and it didn't report any error.

So, is it just a foul up in AVG's definition files?

[Healey]

Hi
I have tried clamscan (old version because I dont know how to upgrade it) It did NOT find any virus

I have tried again with sudo permission - same result !

I dont think I tried wine with sudo - Not sure why I should have done that but its possible because I am new to all this - still learning !!


Its strange eh!

Healey