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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.

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

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.

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?

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 if u want a pet of avast I can post it up tonight for u.

Nope I will use the Pupu-rescue instead. That way I get a better Lupu 528.

I only did mention Bitdefender to be complete in case somebody remember where them read the txt.

I feel good about using avast. The Linux site that did the test did not even testing f-prot and that makes me not interested in F-prot but I know it is there if one need it. I tested it and it found nothing and that is alarming. it should find a lot of things that the malware has placed there.

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.

No problem you will have it in a few hours.

Here's the thread for the pet you wanted http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 117#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.

works fine scanning my 1TB external hard drive now

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

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

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

nooby wrote: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.

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... cleContent