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fake_upd blocking with Norton Antivirus
I just updated my Netgear firmware and am now constanty seeing my Nortin Antivirus blocking someing called 'fake_upd'... anyone heard of this, what is it, and how do I make it go away?
Big thank you to Antidode and Myersw for the suggestion to remove the NetGearGenie App from my Mac. That removed the probem. I will take your suggeston and use the NetGear website exclusively. I spent hours on the phone with NetGear - where they offered to have me pay $100 to remove the problem. When I saw your suggestion to remove the App, I did a head slap, then followed you advice... now I am problem free. Well done to you both!
Only thing I can find on this is here, https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-App/fake-udp/td-p/999733?
Unfortunately, that post dosen't tell me anything. No solutions were given for the porblem - just others asking the same question/having the same complaint.
Agree, and it was old as well and pertained to a Mac. It sort of implied it was coming in though and real?
> I just updated my Netgear firmware [...]
From what to what? Router firmware, or desktop Genie program (on
what?), or what?
> [...] 'fake_upd' [...]
"fake_upd" or "fake_udp"?
> [...] pertained to a Mac [...]
In that other thread, at least some of the blame was assigned to
"Netgear Genie to Version 2.4.12", but it's hard to find a problem
report with enough (accurate) detail to determine much.