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AVG Anti-Virus for Linux/FreeBSD
Version 8.5
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System requirements
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AVG Anti-Virus for Linux/FreeBSD requires system with following or
newer library:
- libc.so.6 (Linux)
- libc.so.6 (FreeBSD)
  For RELEASE-7 and CURRENT the compat6x port located in /usr/ports/misc is
  needed.
- libiconv.so.3 (FreeBSD)
- for amd64 architecture the lib32 compat libraries are needed

For on-access scanning feature either redirfs, dazuko or dazukofs is needed.
Please follow the avgoad(1) man page for more detail description.

Minimum hardware requirements:
- CPU: i686 or amd64 on 800 MHz
- Mem: 512 MB, 1GB is recommended
- HDD: 350 MB of free space

Note:
System running FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE on amd64 is not supported. However it is
possible to run AVG Anti-Virus with following lines in the /etc/libmap32.conf
file:

[/opt/avg/avg8/bin/]
libthr.so.2    libc_r.so.6
libthr.so    libc_r.so


Installation
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Download latest rpm, deb, sh or tar.gz package from http://www.avg.cz/linux and
follow these steps:

* Installation from RPM (Linux only)

# rpm -i avg85lms-r{release}-a{vdb version}.{architecture}.rpm

* Installation from .deb (Linux only)

# dpkg -i avg85lms-r{release}-a{vdb version}.{architecture}.deb

* Installation from sh

# chmod +x avg85lms-r{release}-a{vdb version}.{architecture}.sh
# ./avg85lms-r{release}-a{vdb version}.{architecture}.sh

* Installation from .tar.gz

# tar xzvf avg85{edition}-r{release}-a{vdb version}.{architecture}.tar.gz
# cd avg85{edition}-r{release}-a{vdb version}.{architecture}
# ./install.sh

where:
- edition substitutes 'lms' for the Linux version and 'fms' for the FreeBSD version
- release substitutes the build number
- vdb version substitutes virus database version
- architecture substitutes the target cpu architecture


Registration
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You can register AVG8 for Linux/FreeBSD during installation from sh or tar.gz,
or later using command:
# avgctl --register <your license number>

For trial version, the following license number can be used:
8LESRV-AL7LJ-XW4KK-YW8EA-6FUJP-SYDDC-DT0T


Description
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Avg functions are secured by several daemons that are managed via command-line.  

DAEMONS:
   avgd       -- general AVG daemon; starts first, manages other AVG daemons
   avgavid    -- AVI daemon; loads AVI into shared memory
   avgsched   -- scheduler for planning periodic events (update etc.) 
   avgtcpd    -- e-mail scanning daemon; supports SMTP, AVG, and Milter protocol
   avgspamd   -- anti-spam daemon
   avgscand   -- anti-virus daemon
   avgupd     -- update daemon
   avgoad     -- on-access daemon

COMMAND-LINES:
   avgctl     -- basic control of AVG product, such as launching, stopping,
                 restarting, registration, and getting statistics from running
                 daemons
   avgcfgctl  -- can get and set configurations values
   avgscan    -- launch on-demand scan of requested path
   avgupdate  -- run virus database update or program update via avgupd with
                 specified parameters
   avgdiag.sh -- diagnostic tool for easy collection of troubleshooting data

For more detailed information please refer to the respective man page.

3rd party licenses
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This product may use any of the 3rd party software which appropriate
copyright/license is enclosed in the "licenses" subdirectory.

A copy of Milter source code used in AVG is available upon request.

Copyrights
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libtar, Copyright (c) 1998-2003 University of Illinois Board of
Trustees, Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Mark D. Roth, All rights reserved.

MD4 and MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data
Security, Inc. Created 1991. All rights reserved.

Mailshell SpamCompiler, Copyright (c) 2006 Mailshell


