Thursday, August 18, 2016
Sophos Antivirus for Linux
Sophos Antivirus for Linux
Depending on your needs and paranoia, you may want to install an antivirus client on Linux. Sophos has a nice client but their installation documentation was a bit sparse. Here are some helper notes for RHEL 6.5:
- Upload the sav-linux-##-i386.tgz file to your Linux server
- cd /tmp
- tar -xzvf /PATH/TO/YOUR/sav-linux-##-i386.tgz
- sudo yum -y install /lib/ld-linux.so.2 gcc make kernel-devel-`uname -r`
- sudo sophos-av/install.sh
- sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savupdate
- sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savconfig set EnableOnStart true
- sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savconfig set AutomaticAction disinfect
- sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savconfig add AutomaticAction delete
- sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl enable
- Test to make sure it is working by running this command: curl -o /tmp/eicar.com.txt http://www.eicar.org/download/eicar.com.txt ; cat /tmp/eicar.com.txt (you should get a warning stating Threat "EICAR-AV-Test" detected in file -- hit enter to acknowledge)
Note: if you use your own update source and have a secondary URL:
a. sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savsetup
b. Choose option 1 (Auto-updating configuration)
c. Choose option 5 (Configure secondary update source From own server)
d. When prompted, enter the URL
e. Choose option q (Quit)
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Resources:
- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/documentation/savl_9_cgeng.pdf
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