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Installation Sophos Intercept X (university-owned Linux devices)

You can obtain the installation sources for installing Sophos Intercept X on university-owned devices from your IT managers.

On Linux, the installation package of Sophos Intercept X can remove the old Sophos Endpoint Protection software.

To install, please proceed as follows:

  1. Get the Sophos Intercept X installation package and place it on your local hard drive.
  2. Open the Terminal program. Confirm every of the following commands with the press of the  return-key.
  3. Change to the download directory via cd Downloads
  4. Make the installation package executable with chmod +x SophosSetupRRZ.sh
  5. Install Sophos as an administrator by entering sudo ./SophosSetupRRZ.sh the administration password is asked for after that. It is not displayed when entered.
    When Sophos Endpoint Protection is still installed, append the parameter --uninstall-sav to remove it.
  6. The setup is running now, the files are being copied to /opt/sophos-spl/.

Now, you can start the scan of the hard disk with this command:
sudo /usr/local/bin/avscanner /

The configuration of Sophos is handled centrally in the Sophos management portal.