Linux workstation anti-virus practice

Article Title: Linux system workstation anti-virus practice. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source. 1. avast! Main features of Linux Home Edition

You may think that the command line method is not very friendly, so here we will introduce it with avast! For Linux/Unix Servers: avast! Linux Home Edition can run in any X-Windows environment, such as KDE or Gnome. Avast! Linux Home Edition provides anti-virus solutions for Linux platforms. This product is designed for both domestic and non-commercial purposes. Main features:

　　Anti-Virus Kernel

Avast! For Linux uses the same anti-virus kernel as the Windows system, that is, the Linux version contains all the cutting-edge features of the anti-virus kernel of Windows. The latest version of avast! The anti-virus kernel has outstanding scanning and removal functions and has high performance. It can detect nearly 100% of popular viruses (viruses that have been spread among users ), there is also an outstanding Trojan Detection Function and extremely low false positive rate. this kernel has been certified by the ICSA lab and is often tested in the Virus Bulletin magazine. It has won VB100 awards many times. like avast in Windows! Same as avast! Linux Anti-Virus engine has a prominent decompression function, which can scan MAPI, CAB, ACE, CHM, 7ZIP and NTFS streams. you can also scan the following compressed files: ARJ, ZIP, MIME (+ all combination formats), DBX (Outlook Express compression files), RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, ZOO, ARC, LHA/LHX, TNEF (winmail. dat), CPIO, RPM, ISO, and SIS. it also supports some executable compressors (such as PKLite, Diet, UPX, ASPack, FSG, MEW ...).

　　User Interface

You can perform a manual scan on the Simple user interface to process the scan results and change scan options. the user interface requires the GTK + 2.x library. if your system does not install these libraries, you can use the configurations in the installation package.

　　Command Line Scanner

Experienced users appreciate typical manual scanners controlled by command lines. it allows scanning of files in a specified directory and local and remote volumes. of course, the Command Line Scanner can also scan volumes mounted through the network. the program is very flexible; it can receive a large number of parameter commands, it can also create a large number of report files for analysis. the scanner can operate in STDIN/STDOUT mode and use it as a pipe filter. this mode is mainly used in shell scripts.

　Automatic update

Another key aspect of virus protection is the update of the virus database. The current version does not adopt incremental updates. When the virus definition file is changed, the entire VPS file needs to be replaced by the new file.

Virus isolation zone

Linux has a virus isolation zone and stores suspicious files. You can delete these files or perform other operations.

Internationalization

Currently, avast! For Linux supports the following languages: English and Czech. In addition, avast! Linux Home Edition is free of charge.

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