About

Arch package for Avast Antivirus for Linux

Features

Core features

• On-demand Scan
• CLI Scan
• Realtime On-Write Scan (FAnotify based)
• Defend against zero-day attacks and other threats
• REST API
• .. and much more ;)

All details can be found here:

• homepage
• techdoc

Community features

• Graphical User Interface (in a very early state though): avast-gui

Packages

• avast: Main package - provides the core scanner service (avast) and a command line scan utility (scan)
• avast-fss: Avast File Server Shield is a service which provides Realtime On-Write scanning
• avast-rest: Optional - contains an HTTP server which provides REST API for avast scanner service
• avast-gui: Optional - an unofficial graphical user interface for Avast