Bitdefender for Unices

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I’d be quite surprised if anyone other than me is still using ‘Bitdefender for Unices’ on Linux as it has been unavailable for download even on AUR for a long time. I however do still use it and it has worked pretty well until today. As of this morning, I am unable to update the virus database due to the error message

Error: can’t find update library

I’m not even sure what it is referring to. Does it mean it can’t find the update server? (which may mean it is offline and nobody else can reach it either) or does it mean it can’t find some library file or other location on my pc? I update the virus defs manually every week and it was fine last week, but not any more. Maybe it means that this program is dead now and I have to use clam from now on or maybe you know of something I can do about it. The standard uninstall/reinstall did not work.

Thanks for reading even if you don’t know the answer.

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Hi, I’d stick with ClamAV if you really need a virus scanner. (I guess you are also dealing with Windows?)

I would think that, as it’s been “unavailable” for a while, the provider has finally cut ties and dropped support.

Cheers!

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There is an alternative called libredefender in the Manjaro repo — it works in conjunction with ClamAV. Perhaps you can give that a try?

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I haven’t heard of that before, I’ll give it a try and let you know. Thanks for the heads up.

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Well I tried libredefender, and running a scan it was using over 98% of cpu resources! Tried with clamtk 11%. So guess which I will be using if bitdefender doesn’t come back to life!

Thanks anyway.

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BitDefender for Unices certainly is quite old. Without performing any research I’d guess the infrastructure might have been retired by now.

If you still prefer to use Bitdefender product, you might consider Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools for Linux. I’m reasonably sure it’s neither free, nor cheap, but I occasionally see interesting reviews.

Regards.

Please don’t mark your own post as the solution. The idea is that you should mark the post of whosoever gave you the solution, or helped you the most to find one.

As you seem to have left the building, I’ve taken the liberty of marking the most appropriate post as the solution.

… the assumption being that ClamAV was your preference.

Regards.

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Copied. Ta.

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FYI; the lesser CPU utilization may be due to clamav being single-threaded, if you need faster scans you can increase the number of threads, refer; ClamAV - ArchWiki

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Thanks for the info koshikas. I noticed yesterday how abysmally slow clamscan was compared to bitdefender which is why I have continued using it for so long. I might investigate using extra threads to speed clam up a bit.

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