{"id":16847,"date":"2015-02-25T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T22:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=16847"},"modified":"2022-06-03T03:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T08:46:20","slug":"how-to-install-and-configure-avg-free-anti-virus-on-an-ubuntu-vps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-and-configure-avg-free-anti-virus-on-an-ubuntu-vps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install and configure AVG free anti-virus on an Ubuntu VPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16849 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avg-vps.png\" alt=\"avg vps\" width=\"230\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avg-vps.png 230w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avg-vps-217x100.png 217w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avg-vps-50x23.png 50w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/avg-vps-75x35.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>AVG Free is a version of the AVG anti-virus, spyware and malware protection software which is free for private and non-commercial use. One of the main uses of AVG is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner.<br \/>\nTo <strong>install<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>AVG Free on an <a title=\"Ubuntu VPS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/ubuntu-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ubuntu VPS<\/a><\/strong> follow the very easy steps described below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Make sure your <strong>Ubuntu 14.04 Linux VPS<\/strong> is fully up to date using:<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get update\r\napt-get upgrade\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Download AVG Free to a directory on your server:<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/opt\r\nwget http:\/\/download.avgfree.com\/filedir\/inst\/avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.deb<\/pre>\n<p>Install AVG Free:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo dpkg -i avg2013flx-r3118-a6926.i386.deb<\/pre>\n<p>After installing the package, update the virus definitions by running:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo avgupdate<\/pre>\n<p>Run the following command to configure AVG Free to scan your emails for known viruses, spyware and other malware:<\/p>\n<pre>\/opt\/avg\/av\/bin\/avgsetup<\/pre>\n<p>AVG command line setup<br \/>\nCopyright (c) 2013 AVG Technologies CZ<\/p>\n<p>Your location:\u00a0 Start<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the AVG for Linux\/FreeBSD Deployment Wizard.<br \/>\nThe Wizard will help you deploy AVG according to your needs.<\/p>\n<p>Please choose what you want to do now:<\/p>\n<p>M) Set up the TCPD protection for E-mail Server<br \/>\nO) Set up On-Access for Real-time protection<br \/>\nE) Exit<\/p>\n<p>Type [M|O|E]: <strong>M<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AVG command line setup<br \/>\nCopyright (c) 2013 AVG Technologies CZ<\/p>\n<p>Your location:\u00a0 Start -&gt; E-Mail Deployment<\/p>\n<p>Deploying TCPD for E-mail protection<\/p>\n<p>Please select the E-Mail server you want to secure:<\/p>\n<p>D) Auto detection<br \/>\nP) Postfix<br \/>\nS) Sendmail<br \/>\nQ) Qmail<br \/>\nA) Amavisd interface<br \/>\nB) Go to back<br \/>\nE) Exit<\/p>\n<p>Type [D|P|S|Q|A|B|E]: <strong>D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AVG command line setup<br \/>\nCopyright (c) 2013 AVG Technologies CZ<\/p>\n<p>Your location:\u00a0 Start -&gt; E-Mail Deployment -&gt; Sendmail configuration<\/p>\n<p>AVG for Milter library configuration &#8211; sendmail<\/p>\n<p>Please enter the number of the port for inet socket (to use the default value 10024, press &#8216;Enter&#8217;): press &#8216;<strong>Enter<\/strong>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to enable AVG certification in e-mail body? (y\/N): <strong>N<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you want to enable AVG certification in e-mail headers: scan? (Y\/n): <strong>Y<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you want to enable AVG certification in e-mail headers: spam? (Y\/n): <strong>Y<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please select a configuration mode:<\/p>\n<p>A) Auto &#8211; try to set up the system automatically.<br \/>\nM) Manual &#8211; enter the path to a configuration file manually.<br \/>\nB) Go to back<br \/>\nE) Exit<br \/>\nPlease type [A|M|B|E]: <strong>A<\/strong><br \/>\nFile \/etc\/mail\/sendmail.cf is detected<\/p>\n<p>Configuration for \/etc\/mail\/sendmail.cf is ready.<br \/>\nBackup of the \/etc\/mail\/sendmail.cf file has been created: \/etc\/mail\/sendmail.cf_avgbackup.<br \/>\nDo you want to apply the configuration now?<br \/>\nPlease type Yes or No: <strong>Yes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Success<br \/>\nIt is necessary to restart the service sendmail. Do you wish to restart the service?\u00a0 (Y\/n): <strong>Y<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is it. The AVG mail scanning is now enabled and active.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scan files and directories using AVG<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can scan files and directories on-demand by running avgscan. Avgscan is a command line anti-virus scanner.<\/p>\n<p>Listed below are some important options from the avgscan man page:<\/p>\n<pre>-l, --heal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Automatically heal infected object.\r\n\r\n-t, --delete\u00a0 Automatically delete infected object.\r\n\r\n-h, --help\u00a0\u00a0 Display help.<\/pre>\n<p>For example, to thoroughly scan \/home directory and it&#8217;s sub-directories recursively (&#8216;paranoid&#8217; scan&#8217;), and store the report in the \/var\/log\/avgscan.log file, run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>avgscan -aPcijk -r \/var\/log\/avgscan.log \/home<\/pre>\n<p>Of course you don\u2019t have to do any of this if you use one of our <a title=\"Linux VPS Hosting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/managed-vps-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Managed Hosting<\/a> services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install AVG\u00a0anti-virus for you. 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