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Today, I have installed AVG Anti-virus on my laptop running Ubuntu. People know that Linux system is invulnerable to any viruses, trojans and malware . So, why do I need anti-virus software? That’s a good question to ask.

For people like me who is running dual booting Ubuntu with Windows Vista, this software can be very handy to scan and delete the viruses. If you are running Linux on a server, you need to worry about Windows clients that connect to it. For an ordinary Linux Home user with only one OS system there is no need for anti-virus software.

Out there, many companies produced anti-virus software for Linux system such as AVG Technologies, McAfee, Trendmicro, Panda Software and Sophos. Since Avg Anti-virus software has served me really well when I am using Vista, so I decided to go with Avg Anti-Virus. Also, it is free and very easy to install on my Ubuntu system. AVG Anti-Virus available for Debian, RedHat, Suse and Mandriva based distribution. Here, I will write how to install Avg Anti-virus on Ubuntu system.

Install Avg Anti-virus

1. First you need to download .deb file from AVG Technologies to your desktop.
2. Then go to the file that you have download ad double click on it. Click on install package and fill in your root password. The installation process will begin and you just need to wait for it to finish.

Alternatvely, you can use terminal.

cd ~/Desktop sudo
dpkg -i avg75fld-r45-a0973.i386.deb

That’s all you need to do. So now you can run AVG Anti-Virus . You can find it under Application Tab.

If it’s not there, what you need to do is to make a luncher for AVG Anti-Virus .

sudo rm -r /usr/share/applications/avggui.desktop

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/avg.desktop

Add

[Desktop Entry]
Name=AVG Antivirus
Comment=Antivirus
Exec=gksudo avggui &
Icon=/opt/grisoft/avggui/prog/pixmaps/avgico_big.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;

save and exit.

You can now start AVG Anti-Virus by going to Applications >> System Tools.

Here are some screenshoot of AVG Anti-Virus running on Ubuntu 7.10

Here are the link to some others anti-virus product for your Linux system

Panda Antivirus for Linux
Vexira Antivirus for Linux
RAV Antivirus Desktop
ServerProtect
Sophos Antivirus