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Old 09-19-2004, 02:38 PM   #1
narose
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Can't run F-Prot complete scan


When I try to run F-Prot Anti-Virus scan, it starts up okay but always freezes up at the
exact same spot every time I try to run it. It downloads and updates the latest virus definitions
with no trouble. According to the documentation, the command line scanner is simply f-prot /

This probably sounds pretty basic to those of you who are familiar with Linux, but I'm still a
newbie with all this, so I hope you'll take pity on me and have patience.

Thanks in advance!
 
Old 09-19-2004, 03:26 PM   #2
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are you running f-prot as root? if you aren't maybe there's something in / that causes f-prot to choke because of permissions or something.
 
Old 09-19-2004, 08:12 PM   #3
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I've tried running f-prot in root too and it freezes up right away. It starts to load the program but this is as far as it gets. See below.

F-PROT ANTIVIRUS
Program version: 4.4.4
Engine version: 3.14.11

VIRUS SIGNATURE FILES
SIGN.DEF created 17 September 2004
SIGN2.DEF created 17 September 2004
MACRO.DEF created 13 September 2004

Search: /
Action: Report only
Files: "Dumb" scan of all files
Switches: -ARCHIVE -PACKED -SERVER
 
Old 09-20-2004, 02:31 AM   #4
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well, to let you know, f-prot really isn't frozen. it's running, but by default it will only output files it finds as infected or are viruses. so if you're scanning "/" and you're clean, you won't see any changes in the output until f-prot is done. do a man f-prot (hopefully you've installed the shortcuts in directories in your path). there should be a way to make f-prot verbose.
 
Old 09-20-2004, 08:30 PM   #5
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Well, as long as it's working, that's all that matters. Thanks much for your help.
 
Old 09-20-2004, 09:09 PM   #6
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Quote:
From "man f-prot"
Code:
       -list  Show a list of all files which have been checked.

Cheers,
Tink
 
Old 09-21-2004, 08:52 PM   #7
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Thanks!
 
Old 10-18-2004, 01:41 PM   #8
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f-prot won't run for me either.

I type in f-prot and it just jumps to the next line. doesn't show scanning anything or any kind of report. Doesn't show to be a running process like it's still trying or anything it just automatically jumps to the next line. Anyone have any ideas I could try.
 
Old 10-18-2004, 02:23 PM   #9
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F-prot is good but you can try Panda Antivirus its free
 
Old 10-18-2004, 02:48 PM   #10
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Thanks,

I installed it and it ran ok. Some e-mail users are getting messages with the bagle virus will panda keep running and detect them so the users don't get the messages?
 
  


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