avast is not loyal for Linux

[AdrianH]

I had found MSEC and set that up, the only frustration is after the scan the popup says "details" but there are none/nothing to click on.

chrootkit I remember from previous installs, that is something I run periodically.  So far so good,PCLOS and avast are running fine.

[Abraxas]

Hey AdrianH.

There's not a lot to worry about with Linux, and security. The Basics, like not logging in as root is a major one.

I don't want you worrying. Say we run a Avast! scan there's lots of "Errors" in the final log, but they aren't errors, just locations Avast! doesn't have permission to access. What I look at when scanning Linux with Avast!; the main UI, and 'There are 0 infected files.' That's all that is important.

MSEC creates a Log:
You should find them in /var/log/msec.log
you need to open the file as root.

Regards

[Abraxas]

PLEASE START A NEW THREAD, THIS ONE HAS BECOME MORE OF A CHAT THAT AN ISSUE

Regards,

Abraxas

03 July 2012, 21:41:57

[love58900]

Dear Abraxas / Avast Antivirus developers,

I am using Fedora 18 and its 32bit version. I am using Avast antivirus for Linux version from 5 years and till now I was not having any problem.

But recently I have upgraded to Fedora 18 and installed Avast antivirus for Linux (latest version). But when I tried command "avastgui" in terminal and got following error and I have also attached screenshot of  the same for your reference.

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell Bold 11" falling back to "Sans Bold 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell Bold 11" falling back to "Sans Bold 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell Bold 11" falling back to "Sans Bold 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell Bold 11" falling back to "Sans Bold 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"

** (avastgui:3826): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Cantarell 11" falling back to "Sans 11"


I am able to use Avast using terminal but cannot use GUI edition directly

So please please please help me

[Abraxas]

Dear  love58900, I don't know a thing about Fedora, just .rpm package installations.

But someone will. In the meantime why not put your problem on a Fedora site, there's sure to be others who use Avast4linuxworkstations who may have the same problem.

Basically I find this scanner, for finding windows viruses works great on my PCLinuxOS 'MiniMe' KDE 4.9.5, Kernel 3.2.18-pclos1.bfs System.

Good Luck !