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How to verify if you are using the new Capricorn engine
How to verify if you are using the new Capricorn engine F-Secure has released a new generation engine for one of our core scanning engines, which, at F-Secure, we call Capricorn. The engine change brings significant improvements in the database size, decreasing it by nearly 75%. This has the benefit of reduced bandwidth…
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Management Information Base files (MIBs)
Management Information Base files (MIBs) A MIB is an informational file that describes the settings that can be made with an F-Secure product and their settings for this product. MIB is part of SNMP (Simple Network Managment Protocol). A MIB describes a set of objects, such as the F-Secure modules (e.g. Anti-Virus) that…
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On-demand scanner (fsav) exit codes
On-demand scanner (fsav) exit codes This article describes the exit codes of fsav(3), the command line scanner module included in the Security Platform and F-Secure Linux Security. FSAV has the following exit codes: * 0 - Normal exit; no viruses or suspicious files found. * 1 - Fatal error; unrecoverable error. (Usually…
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Configuring syslog facility and priority
Configuring syslog facility and priority This article provides information about Linux syslog-related information for configuring the F-Secure Management Agent Alert forwarding. What is the default syslog facility used by F-Secure Client/Server Security and how does the syslog priority map to the F-Secure Alert severity?…
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Pre-installation checklist for F-Secure Linux Security version 11.x
Pre-installation checklist for F-Secure Linux Security version 11.x Some Linux distributions and Linux installations may require certain software packages to be installed or workarounds to be applied before the F-Secure Linux Security product can be installed successfully. This article describes the most common…
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F-Secure Linux Security not fully supporting Policy Manager Console in Anti-Virus mode
F-Secure Linux Security not fully supporting Policy Manager Console in Anti-Virus mode Symptoms F-Secure Linux Security is not fully supporting F-Secure Policy Manager Console (PMC) when in Anti-Virus mode. Diagnosis You are not able to view the status of Linux Security while using PMC in the Anti-Virus mode. Solution…
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Linux Security unable to perform on-access scanning on private temporary files in systemd
Linux Security unable to perform on-access scanning on private temporary files in systemd Symptoms All Linux distributions are transitioning to systemd. Out of the box, systemd services make use of namespaces to contain their temporary files. For example, /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service specifies PrivateTmp=true As…
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Compiling the F-Secure on-access kernel driver (Dazuko)
Compiling the F-Secure on-access kernel driver (Dazuko) Symptoms The on-access scanner daemon is not running after installing Linux Security. Consequently, no file access is scanned for malware. Diagnosis After completing the installation, you notice that the on-access scanner daemon is not running. This means that no…
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Hanging processes with Linux Security 11.00 on RHEL/CentOS 7.x
Hanging processes with Linux Security 11.00 on RHEL/CentOS 7.x Symptoms Linux Security 11.00 on RHEL/CentOS 7.x causes processes to hang when on-access scanning is turned on. The system log warns about one or more processes being blocked for more than 120 seconds. Diagnosis The Linux kernel version (3.10) used by…
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F-Secure Linux Security 11.00 known issues
F-Secure Linux Security 11.00 known issues This article lists down all the current known issues for F-Secure Linux Security 11.00. * Updates to the operating system kernel may cause compiling issues or malfunction of the Dazuko kernel driver (either due to updates including backports from upstream kernel, or significant…