Comments on: F-Prot Antivirus with XFPROT Web Interface

By: William

William — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:56:25 +0000

“sudo dpkg -i fp-linux-ws.deb” doesn’t work in terminal mode in Ubuntu 11.04 neither does it allow me to download it to the usr/local/src folder or copy it there once its downloaded to the “Downloads” folder. The “prepare your system” “sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev checkinstall” did something, ran a ton of lines in terminal window, but the rest doesn’t work. Maybe it doesn’t work with Ubuntu 11.04 because this page is from 2007???
Why is there so much outdated info on Ubuntu and Linux on the web these days? Anything current? Any anti-virus that works with Ubuntu 11.04?
ClamTK is lame and doesn’t scan much of anything, ClamAv doesn’t do anything in Ubuntu 11.04. The internet is the internet so how can Linux be immune to virus when surfing same as Windows?

By: cathy

cathy — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:45:26 +0000

I have installed xfprot on my laptop. When I click on the xfprot icon situated under applications,accessories it says F-binary not found.
Has something gone wrong with the installation? If so how do I fix it?

I installed it using the deb file available online.

By: juhakkk

juhakkk — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:27:21 +0000

Could some geek update this to current situation?
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/linux/
Version 6 of F-PROT Antivirus for Linux

http://web.tiscali.it/sharp/xfprot/
Version 2.1

By: killerkip

killerkip — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:57:22 +0000

wtf?!…anyone knows why the xfprot GUI isn’t showing the “Actions to try on infected files” and “Macro virus removal” options

its latest 1.19
[IMG]http://i11.tinypic.com/2vb56gy[/IMG]

By: killerkip

killerkip — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:37:02 +0000

lol…a typo…my bad

all fixed(added [)

thx for guide!!

By: killerkip

killerkip — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:34:05 +0000

installation went smooth,no errors on the way, but how come its not showing up under “applications/System Tools” ?

Desktop Entry]
Name=F-Prot
Comment=Anti-Virus Application
Exec=xfprot
Icon=/usr/local/xfprot/icons/antivirus-48×48.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;

using ubuntu edgy

By: GeezerTeef

GeezerTeef — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:18:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip…

replace #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/bash

this fixed it for me on my Kubuntu 6.10 with KDE desktop 3.5.5 release.

Good work Kefklop!!!

By: SIRBATS

SIRBATS — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:52:00 +0000

On my edgy I can confirm the above tutorial work absolutely similar with above.

Thanks a lot

By: jj

jj — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:45:36 +0000

Also unsuccessful in installing via your howto.

My xfprot installalation is totally FUBARed the system says “Could not launch menu item. Failed to execute child process “xfprot” (Permission denied)

Tried to uninstall xfprot w/your instructions “sudo dpkg -r xfprot” I get a response of
“you must specify packages by their own names, not by quoting the names of the files they come in”

Further there is an error in the documents text after “sudo checkinstall” I believe “The new package has been installed and saved to /usr/local/src/xfprot-1.16/xfprot_1.18-1_i386.deb” should read “The new package has been installed and saved to /usr/local/src/xfprot-1.18/xfprot_1.18-1_i386.deb”

For the sake of newbies, you should explain nano config in note #3. I didn’t know you had to open up a terminal first. It doesn’t say to do this. So the instruction should have read “Open up a terminal with Application>Accessories>Terminal and type with your favorate text editor (I use nano) nano config…

“Opps” doesn’t give a newbie warm and fuzzies. Now I sit w/a broken AV app that I can not uninstall and no AV protection. This was my first experience away from Synaptic and I can’t say I liked it.

Suggest an updated version be released or remove above.

By: Augusto

Augusto — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:01:40 +0000

Sorry, but it doesn’t work for me. When I try to run xfprot from the Menu, it say that I do not have privilegies to do that.

By: p0rt

p0rt — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:52:16 +0000

Thanks for that, already had checkinstall installed. To make it work I had to download the zipped version and setup the proxy in the tools/check-updates.pl, these are my changes

## Variables used to indicate weather or not proxying should be used.
my $useProxy = 1;
my $useFtpProxy = 1;

## Variables related to proxying. They are only used if this script
## is passed the proxy arguments (check-updates.pl -help for further
## information).
my $proxyServer = “http://path.to.proxy”;
my $ftpProxyServer = “http://path.to.proxy”;
my $ftpProxyType;
my $proxyUsername = “username”; # don’t forget the ” “!!
my $proxyPassword = “password”;
my $proxyFtpUsername;
my $proxyFtpPassword;
my $noCache = 0;

After these changes the tutorial worked a treat! Thanks!!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:09:16 +0000

did you try to install the following package and try

sudo apt-get install checkinstall

By: p0rt

p0rt — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:25:44 +0000

Having a problem installing behind a proxy server error message is:

Setting up fp-linux-ws (4.6.7) …

Unable to connect to server and retrieve update info!

Can’t connect to updates.f-prot.com:80 (connect: timeout)

Exiting…
dpkg: error processing fp-linux-ws (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
fp-linux-ws

any suggestions?

By: zefklop

zefklop — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:15:01 +0000

Oops… in fact you need to edit the first line of the configure file :

nano configure

replace #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/bash

ubuntu uses dash and not bash !

By: zefklop

zefklop — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:11:10 +0000

You need to install the libgtk-dev package by

“sudo apt-get install libgtk-dev”

By: James D. Freels

James D. Freels — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:13:09 +0000

This seems to be a worthwhile thing to do indeed. However, I cannot seem to build the xfprot. I have install the gtk packages, but something is missing.

Running ubuntu/edgy

fea::/commercial/f-prot/xfprot-1.18/: sudo ./configure --with-sudo --autodetect --without-debug --with-install-dir=/usr/local
Checking for bash…..OK

/bin/bash
Writing default values to config.h

Setting install and binaries directory prefix to : /usr/local
You can override this with: --with-install-dir=/somedir
Setting xfprot binary directory to: /usr/local/xfprot

Using default value: ‘sudo’

Autodetecting f-prot’s install directory….please be patient
found: /usr/local/f-prot
Setting xfprot private directory to: ~.xfprot

Running Linux Kernel: 2.6
Checking for konsole…..OK
/usr/bin/konsole
./configure: 447: gtk-config: not found
test: 447: ==: unexpected operator
/usr/bin/pkg-config
test: 447: ==: unexpected operator
test: 447: ==: unexpected operator
test: 447: ==: unexpected operator
test: 447: ==: unexpected operator
test: 447: ==: unexpected operator
test: 447: ==: unexpected operator
test: 447: ==: unexpected operator
You have to install the Gtk+ development (and runtime?) libraries version 2.4.x or superior.
fea::/commercial/f-prot/xfprot-1.18/: which gtk-config
fea::/commercial/f-prot/xfprot-1.18/: locate gtk-config
fea::/commercial/f-prot/xfprot-1.18/: