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This product includes third-party source code. Please check the copyrights and license terms section below in this document before installing this software.
General
This document contains important information about F-Secure BaseGuard. We strongly recommend you read the entire document before installing the software.
For details on the latest release of F-Secure BaseGuard, see the change log on F-Secure Community.
Product contents
F-Secure BaseGuard is a software development kit (SDK) which provides scanning service component that can be integrated into other products and can be used to develop new solutions. It provides:
- malware scanning and content reputation services for files and URLs
- spam and malicious content scanning service for emails
- web traffic filtering for HTTP
System requirements
F-Secure BaseGuard should be installed on a computer that meets the following minimum system requirements:
- Processor: x86_64
- Memory: 1024 MB
- Disk space:
- /opt/f-secure 1 GB
- /etc/opt/f-secure 1 GB
- /var/opt/f-secure 100 GB
The following Linux distributions are supported:
- CentOS 7 (64-bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit)
Installation and configuration
Please refer to F-Secure BaseGuard manual for installation and configuration information.
Known issues
There are no known issues.
Contact information and feedback
To provide feedback or report any issues, go to:
When reporting a technical problem, please attach the F-Secure diagnostic report(s) to the feedback. This report contains basic information about hardware, operating system, network configuration and installed F-Secure and third-party software.
F-Secure Community
BaseGuard Developers Board is a private board in F-Secure Community where F-Secure R&D and customer support answer any questions that are related to the product.
To gain access to Baseguard Developers Board, go to the F-Secure Community web site (http://community.f-secure.com/) and click wp-signup.php in the top menu. After you have wp-signup.phped, send your community nickname to [email protected] and request access to BaseGuard Developers Board.
- Creating diagnostic information
- You can create diagnostic information package that contains configuration details of the system and log files. The information is required for troubleshooting.
Follow these instructions to create diagnostic package:
- Log in to the system.
- Run /opt/f-secure/baseguard/bin/gen_diag_info.
- The location of the diagnostic package to attach is shown.
F-Secure license terms
F-Secure license terms are included in the software. You must read and accept them before you use the software.
Copyrights and license terms
Please read and accept the license terms below before installing the software.
- Third-party copyrights and license terms
- This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/). Copyright © 1998-2018 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved.
This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young ([email protected]). Copyright © 1995-1998 Eric Young ([email protected]). All rights reserved.
JSON-C
Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Eric Haszlakiewicz
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Metaparadigm Pte Ltd
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Libcurl
COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE
Copyright (c) 1996 – 2009, Daniel Stenberg, [[email protected]>. All rights reserved.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
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FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization of the copyright holder.
Libevent
Libevent is available for use under the following license, commonly known as the 3-clause (or “modified”) BSD license:
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Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Niels Provos [[email protected]du] Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Niels Provos and Nick Mathewson
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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Portions of Libevent are based on works by others, also made available by them under the three-clause BSD license above. The copyright notices are available in the corresponding source files; the license is as above. Here’s a list:
log.c:
Copyright (c) 2000 Dug Song [[email protected]] Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California.
strlcpy.c:
Copyright (c) 1998 Todd C. Miller [Todd. [email protected]]
win32select.c:
Copyright (c) 2003 Michael A. Davis [[email protected]]
evport.c:
Copyright (c) 2007 Sun Microsystems
ht-internal.h:
Copyright (c) 2002 Christopher Clark
minheap-internal.h:
Copyright (c) 2006 Maxim Yegorushkin [[email protected]]
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The arc4module is available under the following, sometimes called the “OpenBSD” license: Copyright (c) 1996, David Mazieres [[email protected]]
Copyright (c) 2008, Damien Miller [[email protected]]
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
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