problems with bitdefender

[Ugo Bellavance]

Could someone be kind enough to send me by mail or post to the list the
eventual conclusion to this thread?  I really want to try this out, and
write a FAQ and put that in the MAQ as well.

Thanks,

BTW: http://www.anti-virus-software-review.com/

Julian Field wrote:

> At 12:32 02/05/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> > PS Bitdefender is free for Linux so people may like to consider adding
>> > it as another defence.
>> >
>> > Quote from the Bitdefender web site: "BitDefender Linux Edition v7 is a
>> > freeware product, which doesn't require a license to be used."
>>
>> Trying this right now, but i noticed the update_virus_scanners didnt
>> see i
>> have it installed. Its in the regular place (/opt/bdc) and when i run
>> manually /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender_autoupdate is updated the sig
>> files.
>>
>> Any idea Julian ?
>>
>> Trying the RPM version from their website:
>> BitDefender-Console-Antivirus-7.0.1-3.linux-gcc3x.i586.rpm
>>
>> So its using the suggested paths as packed by bitdefender theirselves
>>
>> I also noticed in the /etc/MailScanner/virus.scanners.conf
>>
>> bitdefender    /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-wrapper /usr/local/bd7
>>
>> After changing that to /opt/bdc it seems to pick it up ok:
>>
>> bitdefender     /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-wrapper /opt/bdc/
>>
>> May  2 13:25:41 vmx01 update.virus.scanners: Found bitdefender installed
>> May  2 13:25:41 vmx01 update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
>> bitdefender
>>
>> There is some stuff in the wrapper i noticed, but thats not picking
>> things
>> up, right now it is, but only with the changed paths in the
>> virus.scanners.conf
>
>
> The preferred path *was* /usr/local/bd7, they must have changed it.
> Everything should work once virus.scanners.conf points to /opt/bdc (you
> don't need the trailing / on the end).
>
> It's awkward to have 2 default paths for one scanner :-)
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