Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 4088 Location: Earth

I have LightHouse 5.00D, Puppy 5..1.1 and FATDOG. All seemingly are missing both clamscan and fpscan at the Terminal window. (also none appear in the Menu).

What would anyone recommend to add one/both of these to a running Puppy?
Are there PETs available?
Are thre SFSs available?
should I just go to their websites?

Thanks in advance...

yorkiesnorkie · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 505 Location: George's Island

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5463 Location: Finland

As I stated earlier, for Lucid Puppy 5.1 and 5.1.1 there is F-prot 6 pet in the official lucid repo. It probably needs updating repo packages file before you can see it in PPM.

But here is direct link and advice howto install and use fpscan: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=448530#448530

Frank Cox · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381

Avast for workstations does not protect the Linux system. it scans the places you tell it to. I have it installed on this flash drive Puppy ver 431 so I can boot windows systems and clean the viruses and/or copy the data.

There is a problem in that some of the Linux kernels and Windows 98 as well will not allow the virus files to update unless you modify the ~/etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
This is the post on the avast forum explaining how to do it.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=57775.0
Starting with the 400.vps, version 100328-1, one of it's internal block reached the inner limit 33554432 bytes. It's a kernel variable which
is (quite artificially) limiting the maximum size of any SHM memory block - and 33554432 was a default for some kernels.

Solution? Set the limit to higher values (as root):

sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=128000000
OR
echo 128000000 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

Place those lines to /etc/init.d/rcS or equivalent file (it's distribution-specific a bit - see /etc/inittab, the sysinit runlevel) to have them set automatically (just after boot)

jemimah on the PuppyLinux irc channel suggested placing the command in the ~/etc/rc.d/rc.local file and it is working perfectly for me. I had it scan a Windows install and it found no viruses but it did correctly identify corrupted compressed files.

As far as the install I just unpacked the tarball to root and drug the AvastGui on to the desktop. If anyone figures a better way let me know. I have used Avast free edition for years on winders and no worries.

http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab4

yorkiesnorkie · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 505 Location: George's Island

yorkiesnorkie · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 505 Location: George's Island

otropogo

I received e-mail notification of a new post on Jan. 12, 2011, but it doesn't appear on my list of followed threads, now can I see it in the forum thread itself. What gives?

"Topic Reply Notification - Avast AV, AVG, Avira AV, Clam AV, F-Prot, Moon AV, Panda AV"

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 1087 Location: England

Hi.

I assume you meant "nor" rather than "now" and the reference may be to yours of 15th Sep on page 3.

My regards

otropogo · Posted: Fri 14 Jan 2011, 13:37 Post subject:

Makoto · Posted: Sat 15 Jan 2011, 00:43 Post subject:

This is usually what happens when a post is removed from a topic people are 'watching,' for whatever reason (most of the time, it's a spam post).

I think I do remember seeing a spam post pop up in this topic, recently (I see a lot of them, so it's not easy to remember all the topics. Smile

)

Usually, the spammer/bot makes a post, and because you're subscribed to the topic, you get an email notice. But if and when the spam is removed, the moderators can't recall those email notices. Smile

(Nor does the forum software have any mechanism to notify users watching the post that the same post has been removed, as far as I know.)

otropogo · Posted: Sun 16 Jan 2011, 02:06 Post subject:

Makoto · Posted: Sun 16 Jan 2011, 02:33 Post subject:

On another forum I frequent, in the days when it used to be a phpBB board (they've since switched to VBulletin), whenever the mods removed/deleted a post, it would usually say something like, "This post has been deleted by [moderator name]." I'm not sure if that was done by a phpBB mod, or not, though.

I suppose something similar could possibly be done if there was a special subforum only the moderators could see, they moved spam there for consideration/etc. before deleting it, and the 'phantom topics/posts' (as you probably noticed when this subforum (well, the Additional Software section) was being reorganized) were created, just to let you know the post or topic's been moved.