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Install BitDefender on Ubuntu 13.04 From Official Repository

Last updated: July 21, 2013

BitDefender Anti-virus is available for Linux from its official repository. Here I’ll show you how to install it on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail.

Ubuntu itself has few virus, you can install anti-virus program on Ubuntu Linux to scan USB devices or Windows NTFS partitions.

Objectives:

  • Install BitDefender on Ubuntu from official repository
  • Enjoy!

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T key combination to open terminal, then run below command to add BitDefender official repository for Linux.

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/ bitdefender non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bitdefender.list'

Then download and install the key via below command:

wget -O- -q http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/bd.key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

After adding the repository, use your package manager to install BitDefender. Or run below commands to update packages list and do install:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install bitdefender-scanner-gui

Once installed, run GUI via below command. Read this tutorial to manually add a launcher.

/opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdgui

bitdefender

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How to Change Network Card MAC Address on Ubuntu 13.04

Last updated: July 3, 2013

Want to change the MAC address of your network card? In this tutorial I’ll show you how to do this in Ubuntu as easy as a few commands in terminal.

My laptop has two cards on eth0 and wlan0, here I’m going to change the card on eth0.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open up a terminal, then get started with below steps:

1.) You may run command to check you network cards, and backup original MAC address for easy to revert back.

ifconfig

2.) Turn the network card down.

sudo ifconfig eth0 down

3.) Change MAC Address:

sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE

4.) Start your network card:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

That’s it!

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