What is it?

SAVget is a bash-script designed to emulate and improve upon the SGET utility released by Sophos Antivirus (http://www.sophos.com) for Windows NT/2000/XP. It aims to eventually be a full-featured equivalent of SGET for UNIX systems running Sophos Antivirus for UNIX.

Who wrote it?

SAVget was written by Patrick Boyne <pjb@arangoth.org>. Information can be found at http://www.pizzle.org/~kylus/savget.html.

Why write it?

Well frankly, I got sick and tired of having to go to the Sophos Website to download new Virus Identity files (IDEs) whenever they were released. I saw SGET on the list of Windows software, and decided that some sort of program like SGET would be useful for UNIX-based systems. I decided to get a little creative and add email-integration to my version though. See below for more details.

Features

The current version of SAVget is 0.2.4. This version has the following features:

Update ALL IDEs for the current SAV version.
Set local directory (override $SAVDIR).
Get a single IDE file (leave off the .ide).
Use Sophos' UK mirror (default is the US site).
Work with Mutt to scan emails and download new IDE files.
Download a Comma-delimited list of Registered Products to download.
Run quietly (only output errors).
Retrieve a default list of Registred Products.
Specify username and password (username,pass).
Log commands to Syslog

Requirements

root access (needed for setup only)
Sophos AntiVirus for UNIX installed on the system
bash 2.0 or better (pretty standard on most Linux distributions)
The latest vesrion of wget
Patience with the author :)

Optional

SAVget >= 0.2.4 can now restart Vanja Hrustic's Sophie daemon. This is restricted (for now) to root access only. For more info about Sophie, check out http://www.vanja.com/tools/sophie.

Installation

Please see the INSTALL file for details.

Copyright

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA