I have tried the free sophos-av again on ubuntu 14.04, having given up in mid 2015. I see the GUI has gone since I last tried it, no great loss, but the tool still stops me using my system so I'll have to give up again after many frustrating hours.
I get repeated timeouts like
"[ 874.419944] talpa-deny: Timeout occurred while opening /home/me/winmpe/drive_c/windows/system32/imagehlp.dll on behalf of process wineserver[15696/15696] owned by 1000(1000)/1000(1000) <0>" .
The problems mostly seem to occur on wine files, either opening them, or backup them up. I can't even run backups due to this problem.
It would also have helped me enormously if, given that it's a stand-alone product, there were a few more clues about how to get alerts. Sending them to 'root@localserver' or anything similar when I guess many users don't have email servers installed is no great help.
And finally, will this ever be included in Sophos Home? I was disappointed to see it is not part of that product set.
I have so far failed to find any workable linux anti-virus tools for ubuntu desktops, free or otherwise (I don't mind paying for things that work). I had hoped Sophos would get there, but it seems not. Bother.
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