
                    avast! Linux Home Edition (1.0.8)
                    =================================



WHAT IS AVAST!
==============

avast! is an antivirus package that lets you do both on-demand and 
on-access scanning. It combines excellent detection rates with
high speed and superior stability of the antivirus engine.



WHAT CAN AVAST! DO?
===================

avast! has two main modules

-the on-demand CLI scanner (the binary called "avast")
-graphical user interface to the the scanner (the binary called "avastgui")


The on-demand scanner is used to manually scan your files for viruses.
It supports many options, which can be specified on its command line.
To get the list of the command-line options which avast supports, execute 
the command

avast -?

or

avast --help

(these are equivalent). 


INSTALLATION
============

Please see the INSTALL file.


CONFIGURATION
=============

No configuration is neccessary in the workstation version. 


AUTOMATIC UPDATE
================

If you would like your virus database to be updated automatically (by
default, it's updated only when you run the GUI application), please add
the avast-update script to your crontab. The avast-update script requires wget
and md5sum utilities.



MANUAL UPDATE
=============

From a prompt run:

avast-update

Alternativaly, press the "Update database" button in the graphical user
interface or configure it to check for updates on startup.


SUPPORT
=======

MAIL
----
support@avast.com


SUPPORT FORUM
-------------
http://forum.avast.com


TELEPHONE
-------------
(+420) 274 005 333


WEB SITE
--------
http://www.avast.com

