Sophos and FreeNAS

[Thomymaster]

Hi everybody

I need to get my FreeNAS Box for my company to work with Antivirus software (currently all my clients have AV software installed, but i want this on my FreeNAS box as well. Sufficient hardware resources exist :) )

I have a valid supscription for Sophos Antivirus and i read that FreeBSD 8+ is supported (http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118590.aspx) for the managed Sophos installation.

Is there a possibility to install this in FreeNAS? This would be very cool as i can then manage this Sophos client from my Sophos Management Console (and modify/deploy its policy there, i.e. a scan once a day with the ZFS dataset)? :)

Cheers

Thomy

 

[cyberjock]

The only option I can think of is to share your datasets/pools with a jail and install Sophos in a jail. Do note that if sophos doesn't support FreeBSD 9.x then you're already off to a bad start with this plan.

There is an antivirus for FreeBSD called ClamAV. I could be wrong but I *believe* it is free and is available in pkg-ng as well as ports, so that should be a slam dunk. However last I read ClamAV wasn't particularly great at finding viruses so there are drawbacks.

If you really are wanting to scan your server and use Sophos I think the simplest way is to simply mount all of the datasets on some Windows machine and let it scan the entire server over a weekend.

If you do get Sophos installed and working I'd recommend you provide some shorts instructions on how you got it working and the kind of performance you get.

 

[Ericloewe]

Weird priorities they have, supporting Linux on Itanium and FreeBSD 6 but not FreeBSD 9 or 10...

 

[Thomymaster]

OK than i don't neet to try this anymore, i thought that FreeBSD8+ means that FreeBSD 9 and 10 are supported as well :(
Then i stick to the plan, scanning through a proxy once a day which gets all the data via CIFS

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah, sounds like the best option.