I’ve been looking around at the documentation, and been trying to understand if AVG is still free or if you gotta pay, i’ve noticed that Avast is pay to use, tho i didn’t know if AVG was free to use for virus protection for emails.
If there is any documentation or links to the software that still have the free version available, would love to know about it.
I really have no idea as AVG is a 3rd party application which could be used by Axigen for filtering, as explained in this KB.
If you have access to a newer version of AVG Linux Server so we could see if instructions from that quite old KB are still applicable we may have a look on it.
The usual “free” AV filtering integration some of our customers have implemented are with ClamAV so you may consider it as an option if AVG is not working anymore for you.
Right, so i do not know how to get said free AVG server or whatever they have out now, and i’ve been trying to work with clamav, but it refuses to connect to my axigen. Even followed the guides posted on the KB’s
Please find below the steps to install / configure ClamAV to work with Axigen - the below example is for RPM distros and binds locally on the Axigen machine (127.0.0.1:3310)
Please let us know if after running the above commands the ClamAV filter became available in WebAdmin > Security & Filtering > Antivirus & AntiSpam > Supported Applications.
As a note, i am not on a Rhel and or RPM based distro, i am on a APT distro which i have yet to find a forum post describing how to do it with a APT distro like debian and or ubuntu.
Please know that on a DEB distro the packages that should be installed are most probably clamav and clamav-daemon and also you should check Apparmor.
Anyway, we will test the ClamAV installation on a DEB internally and get back to you with more information.
Hi,
Following back to our conversation, please know that we successfully installed ClamAV on the Ubuntu 20.04 Axigen machine and was able to use it without problem.
Please find below the steps we used to install it on our test environment:
Make sure that Apparmor is allowing it to access /var/opt/axigen/queue directory and its sub-directories
We are then gonna reconfigure clamav-daemon and you may accept all defaults but specify TCP sockets rather than UNIX sockets.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon
We are gonna set Axigen as a user running ClamAV. Open /etc/clamav/clamd.conf and make the following changes: Set the “User” variable to “axigen”.
*Make there is no “LocalSocket” * Make sure TCPSocket is 3310 and TCPAddr is 127.0.0.1
Now we need to change the database owner, please open /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf and make the following changes: DatabaseOwner variable to “axigen” Save. After that, we will need to change the ownership of the clamav files using: