Avira ANTIVIR PROFESSIONAL FOR UNIX Installation And Configuration

HowTo

Installation and Configuration of

Avira AntiVir Professional for UNIX

Avira Support

June 2009

Content

1 Which environment can be protected by Avira Professional for Unix?............................... 2

2 Installation.............................................................................................................................. 2

3 Recommended Basic Configuration ...................................................................................... 3

4 What can be configured additionally?................................................................................... 6

4.1 No Real Time Protection ............................................................................................................ 6

4.2 Heavy Load in the System .......................................................................................................... 6

4.3 Exception of Directories ............................................................................................................. 6

5 Particularities - NSS Volumes ............................................................................................... 7

6 Command Line Scanner - avscan.......................................................................................... 7

7 Update Configuration............................................................................................................. 8

7.1 Reasonable Values for an Update.............................................................................................. 8

7.2 Large Enterprises........................................................................................................................ 8

7.3 Small Business:............................................................................................................................ 8

7.4 Customers with Narrow Strip Connections (modem/ISDN)................................................... 9

7.5 Internet Service Providers.......................................................................................................... 9

7.6 Signature Update ........................................................................................................................ 9

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1 Which environment can be protected by Avira
Professional for Unix?

- Local virus protection

You only have to mount the corresponding shares with DazukoFS (or to configure the
shares as include path in Dazuko 2)

You can use the Avira AntiVir Professional for Unix with (OnAccess) or without real
time protection (OnDemand).

2 Installation

- Decompress: gzip -d antivir-workstation-prof-3.0.2-5.tar.gz

- Unpack tar -xvf antivir-workstation-prof-3.0.2-5.tar.gz

- Change directory: cd antivir-workstation-prof-3.0.2-5.tar.gz

- Execute installation: ./install\

Follow the installation dialog...

The following requests are recommended and should be kept:

- Would you like to setup Engine and Signature updates as cron task ? [y]

- Please, specify the interval to check. Recommended values are daily or 2 hours.
available options: d [2]

- Please specify if boot scripts should be set up.
Set up boot scripts [y]

Please, consider that the installation of the real time protection with Unix needs the
external kernel module Dazuko 3.0.
You find more information on www.dazuko.org.

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