Preface
This User's Guide is intended to all who have chosen BitDefender Antivirus Scanner
for Unices as security solution for their systems. The information presented in this
book is suitable not only for computer literates,it is accessible to everyone who is able
to do administrative tasks on a Linux box.
This book will describe for you BitDefender Antivirus Scanner forUnices, the Company
and the team who built it, will guide you through the installation process, will teach
you how to configure it at thevery detail. You will find howto use BitDefender Antivirus
Scanner for Unices, how to update, interrogate, test and customize it. You will learn
how to integrate it with various software and how to get the best from BitDefender.
We wish you a pleasant and useful lecture.
1. Conventions used in this book
1.1. Typographical conventions
Several text styles are used in the book for an improved readability. Their aspect and
meaning are presented in the table below.
DescriptionAppearance
Variables and some numerical data are printed
with monospaced characters.
variable
The URL links is pointing to some external
location, on http or ftp servers.
http://www.bitdefender.com
Emails are inserted in the text for contact
information.
<support@bitdefender.com>
This is an internal link, towards some location
inside the document.
Chapter 5 “Package installation” (p.
33)
File and directories are printed usingmonospaced
font.
filename
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