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Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: overview

Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux provides on-access scanning and automatic updating for Linux desktops, laptops and servers. Ready compiled modules are available for a large number of distributions, and self-compiled executables support further versions.

Installation and configuration

For details on installation and configuration, see the Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux documentation.

• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: system requirements
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: how to switch from Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX/Linux
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: how to install
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: using a custom built or unsupported kernel
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: using the web user interface
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: web user interface must be stopped before running mkinstpkg.sh

Troubleshooting

• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: 'Error Scanning file "/lib/security/pam_unix.so"'
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: error "Uncaught IException in UI Notifier child code"
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: on-access scanner may not recognize mounted drives when using Novell Client for Linux
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: TALPA modules fail to load if built with a different version of GCC from that used by the kernel
• Sophos Anti Virus for Linux: unable to compile kernel modules on RedHat Enterprise AS 2.1
• Sophos Anti Virus for Linux: unable to intercept files in kernel-mode NFS server on kernels 2.6 to 2.6.8
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: uninstalling fails if cron absent
• Sophos Anti Virus for Linux: X window pop-ups may not work correctly when using Konqueror
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: you cannot see the savlog through the command line utility or the GUI

Japanese versions

• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: pop-up notifications incorrectly displayed on Japanese language Red Hat platforms
• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux: scanning two Japanese files with the same name

If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.

• Article ID: 16819
• Created: 1 Aug 2006
• Last updated: 9 Oct 2008

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