Hello, Update function doesn't working with SAV Endpoint for Linux. Could not decide that this is issue with the connection trough our enterprise proxy service or the root cause the failed authentication to SAV update service. Update already configured…

As the title says, when I try to exclude a directory from savscan it does not exclude it. I have tried the following commands for a full-system scan, excluding a directory that cannot be accessed: savscan / -exclude /var/lib/lxcfs/cgroup/ savscan…

I have been using Sophos for Linux for a few years now on a large website with a lot of uploads. We noticed that Sophos was no longer moving files to quarantine after we made infrastructure changes, such as making another Linux container with Redis to…

I've recently installed the free sav version on a linux server to evaluate as a potential solution for scanning emails for malware. I did notice a few "interesting" behavior differences though and I hope someone could explain those to me: If sav-protect…

I had email issues from a linux server, and have since fixed it. Now Sophos is constantly sending old email alerts for errors that look like this: An error classified as '0x3c: Unable to write to talpa socket' was detected in the file '/var/log/samba…

Hi, I am using the free tool Sophos-AV for Linux. When I update using sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savupdate , it gives as last version Do 29 Mär 2018 21:06:59 CEST . As this date is quite some time ago, I worry that this is not correct. Copyright 1989…

There are a number of options available for savscan such as --stay-on-filesystem , --no-follow-symlinks , -bs -mbr (for boot sector scans) that are not available through the scheduled named scan configuration. Similarly, the excludeExtension option from…

Hey, I use the following command to scan an Ubuntu 14.04 regularly. ionice -c 3 savscan / -sc -f -ndi -s -nc -nb -all -rec -nremove -ss -archive -loopback -mime -oe -pua -tnef -pua -suspicious --stay-on-machine --no-follow-symlinks --skip-special…

I am continually getting a Sophos Anti-Virus Alert dialog (SAVNotifier) complaining about an file access error. The specifics of the dialog are. Error scanning file /home/<username>/.pyenv/shims/.pyenv-shim Access to the file has been denied" edit:…

Hi all, I am new to Linux in general and especially Linux anti-virus. Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux is the very first product I tried. I have been playing around with the built-in tools in Kali Linux and never thought of them as Malware/Trojans. I tried…

Hey, after entering the password while mounting an encrypted container with VeraCrypt the process hangs. It works fine when I disable sav-protect. I don´t see anything in the logs of sophos-av. I tried already to ignore on access scanning on the mount…

Okay, not sure if this is expected behavior for either Firejail or Sophos or not. I am using Arch Linux with the linux-hardened-apparmor kernel, (currently 4.15-9,) along with firejail-apparmor from the AUR, (both of which I maintain.) After installing…

Hello, I have successfully installed and configured Sophos Antivirus for Linux and SAVDI. Both were integrated into amavisd-new. The tests with infected sample mails were successful, both scanners, Clamd and Sophos SSSP recognized the patterns. Next…

Hello, I want to use a antivirus for Linux computers in my company. Searching in the web i saw a lot of comments and my doubts grew up, so i want to ask you some questions about should i use or not Sophos Antivirus for Linux. 1 - Can i use it in my…

Hi there I've been using Sophos for linux since installing ubuntu 16.04 earlier this year, but have recently come across some issues where Root Kit Hunter picks up some suspicious files in the dev/shm/ folder. This is what I get after running Root…

Hi Sophos Community! I have been using Sophos Antivirus for Linux (In Arch Linux) for a while. This one: www.sophos.com/.../sophos-antivirus-for-linux.aspx I want to know something about this Antivirus or Antimalware. Is it still being in development…

just wondering if this antivirus for Linux can work with Plesk panel: https://www.plesk.com/ plesk is the 2end biggest web panel for hosting websites just after Cpanel. Plesk claims there are 377,000 servers around the world that run Plesk and most…

I get the following errors on Ubuntu uname -a Linux desktop 4.10.0-33-lowlatency #37-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 11 12:59:32 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux They are in dmesg on login and I presume they are partly due to the compilation of the…

Hello, I've Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux that working on a shared web hosting server. To be honest, it provides the best malware detection and it helped me a lot providing my clients with better and secure service. The only issue I got is that…

We have automated Sophos-AV for linux installation using ansible by referring to https://github.com/quarkslab/irma/tree/master/ansible/roles/quarkslab.sophos But installation fails with following error: TASK [antivirus : Sophos | Download installation…

Once I have located the file run: tar -xzvf sav-linux-free-9.tgz Then I run: ./sophos-av/install.sh I would like to skip this guided installation steps and do my own so that i can write ansible scripts? Thanks

On the first scan after install (on a newly installed & configured Ubuntu 16.04), I received a whole slew of errors like the following: "Could not check /var/lib/lxcfs/cgroup/pids/system.slice/tasks (virus scan failed)" All of them begin with the…

I run install.sh and the installation aborts: server7:/Work/antivirus/Sophos # cd sophos-av/ server7:/Work/antivirus/Sophos/sophos-av # ./install.sh Installation aborted. unknown locale: UTF-8 Any clues? Thank you very much in advance!

<code> $ ./bin/savupdate -v5 --debug 2016-06-23 13:46:36,773 DEBUG savupdate.util.Logger: Logging to /opt/sophos-av/log/savupdate-debug.log 2016-06-23 13:46:37,360 INFO savupdate.util.Logger: Update to include '*' priority 10 Update to include '*' priority…