Monday, November 24, 2008

Install BitDefender for Ubuntu

Reference: http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/

  1. Add the BitDefender repository key to the list of apt trusted keys:
    wget http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/bd.key.asc
    apt-key add bd.key.asc
    NOTE that the second command must be run as root or by using sudo
  2. Add the following line to the /etc/apt/sources.list file:
    deb http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/ bitdefender non-free
  3. Refresh your apt cache by running:
    apt-get update
    or
    aptitude update
  4. Install the desired BitDefender packages using your prefered apt front-end
    For example:
    apt-get install bitdefender-scanner
  5. To update
    bdscan --update
  6. To scan
    bdscan filename