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Can I Install Anti-Virus Software on the LightRules Appliance?
At this time, the LRA does not support installation or configuration of anti-virus systems or external intrusion detection agents. The LightRules Appliance is specifically built with a Linux variant due to its innate resiliency—an architecture deliberately designed to operate at different user and privilege levels — and the relatively low pervasiveness of malware affecting Linux systems. To further mitigate the risk of malware introduction or propagation through the lighting network, the internal firewall is configured to characterize and reject any anomalous network traffic, and system critical files are write protected.
