I use Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa Cinnamon 64bit. I am a beginner user of Linux, I do not understand the commands and just copy and paste them when advised to do so, parrot-fashion.

Someone in this forum gave a link to http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-li...irus-programs/

which includes a link to

https://www.comodo.com/home/internet...-for-linux.php

I chose the Mint option and downloaded and installed it, and after starting it up and closing it down ran the "/opt/COMODO/post_setup.sh" command that the installer tells you to run.

Even after restarting the computer, the Comodo program always says "Filesystem filter driver is not loaded!" and tells me to run diagnostics. After running diagnostics it says:

"The kernel module "redirfs.ko" appropiate for your current kernel version does not exist, please run /opt/COMODO/post-setup.sh to install it. Then run "etc/init.d/cmdavd restart" command to restart your cmdvd service."

I have tried running these commands, but get a message that bash does not recognise them.

Someone on this forum http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ed-4175545454/ has had a similar problem and solved it, but I do not understand how they did it. Apparently they downloaded some filter drivers, but I am not clear where or how to do that, or how to uninstall Comodo completely before installing the drivers.

I am disappointed that Comodo AV was not already available in Software Manager, but I suppose that is because it is a proprietary program.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

i think it's all there in posts #3 and #7.
show us all the steps and where you fail.

looks like this link is relatively simple: https://askubuntu.com/questions/4895...-filter-driver

Thanks.

I have now ininstalled Comodo and installed Bitdefender instead, which does not have any problems.

Comodo had a poor ranking of efficiency. See all the details about the above at the end of this thread here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...66#post5710566

Edit: have now found that Bitdefender will not scan due to "engines not loaded" error. I will open another thread about this.