Installing Sophos Anti-Virus

Hi i'm new to Ubuntu and linux and need some help, im trying to install Sophos Anti-Virus and im running in to trouble. The guide reads,

Find Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux Free Edition and click Download. Follow the instructions to download the tarball to a temporary directory, for example /tmp.

Then Change to the temporary directory and untar the tarball: tar -xzvf tarball

I have no idea how to do any of that, iv'e tried with no luck, would appreciate some guidance.

1 Answer

Before downloading the sophos install files, note that you need to accept the end user license agreement, and have an sophos account. so I am not able to provide a direct link. Start here to download sophos:

• Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux

After download save it in your Downloads folder. Right click on the file, and select extract here. After that, open your terminal by pressing CTR-ALT-T, on your keyboard. type in cd Downloads/sophos-av. To start the installer, type in:

sudo sh ./install.sh

Follow the setup wizard, and your done.