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Automatic virus definitions for sav-linux-free version

sophos user2
  • I am able to install free Sophos version from https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-linux.aspx
  • I am able to install this on a linux based container image (without any prompting) using following parameters,
    • /sophos-av/install.sh /opt/sophos --acceptlicence --autostart=False --enableOnBoot=False --automatic --update-source-type=s
  • I am able to do on-demand scans using 'savscan' command and check if ad-hoc files is infected or not.

While this all works fine, I want the virus definitions of the Sophos antivirus to be updated regularly. 

Question:

  • Does free version of sophos for linux offers periodic virus updates?
  • I see following options for the installation, what does 'update-source-username' and 'update-source-password' represents and do I need to set these for periodic virus definition updates?

--update-source-username=FAVXXXXXXXXX \
--update-source-password=YYYYYYYYY \
--update-period-minutes=60



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  • 0 in reply to QC

    Thanks for the pointers Christian,

    I am able to get the updates working with the free version using the following parameters.

    However, I do not want to run the 'savd' daemon running (either at boot or as autostart), as I only need to run on-demand scans using 'savscan'

    Could you please suggest,

    • Is it required to run sophos daemon (with install options --autostart=True --enableOnBoot=True) in the background in order to get automatic periodic updates? Thanks.
    • Can I avoid running the savd daemon but still get automatic periodic updates?

    Thanks.

     

    ./sophos-av/install.sh --acceptlicence --autostart=True --enableOnBoot=True --automatic --update-type=s \

    --update-free=True \

    --instdir=/opt/sophos \

    --update-cache-path=/opt/sophos-av/update/cache/Primary \

    --update-source-path=sop’s: \

    --enableRMS=false \

    --enableOnAccess=false \

    --update-period-minutes=5

  • 0 in reply to sophos user2

    Hello sophos user2,

    AFAIK automatic updates are controlled by savd. Without savd there's no automatic updating and you'd have to run savupdate to get the latest updates.
    Performing just occasional on-demand scans is not the intended and recommended use but, well, it is possible. You want to keep the container lean I assume. Please note that savscan has a considerable start-up time - it has to load and verify all the definitions before it starts scanning and is a quite expensive way to scan single files.

    Christian

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