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Spam email RE R7000 Firmware?
I received 5 emails about firmware vulnerability for the R7000. Is this spam? Email is below. From: "NETGEAR Security" <NETGEARSecurity@e.netgear.com> Date: June 21, 2017 at 9:21:10 AM PDT Subjec...
It's working now. It seems to have been down for a couple of days.
It's not a spam, it's legit. We are sending this out to inform our users about security updates.
Then why is there no update at all available!? Do you send these mails just to mail around or is there any sense in them? because I can't find the update.
I think what Elaine meant, was that this is a general notification for all registered owners, to tell or remind them to update to latest firmware verison IF THEY HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY.......I guess not everybody is necessarily updating the firmware everytime there is an update released! ;-)
And since Netgear does not log/track every users router firmware version, they choose to release a general reminder notification to all users.
Elaine can correct me if I am wrong here! :-)
Same mail, no update available.
download site only shows north america update
Does this mean the eu routers are save, or are the eu router screwed for the time being.
Current Firmware Version V1.0.7.12_1.2.5
and the north America update does not show any security fixes either so this is rather confusing
I dont expect mail about a "new" firmware version that has been online for over 4 months or so
I got the same email. Whenever I go to the website following the instructions I get a messaage that it is unsecure and it may be dangerous to access as it has not been set up properly. I get to the "Release Notes", then when I click on it, I get the "insecure" message. Very frustrating if we are supposed to download the software.
Is the web site you are directed too anything this https://www.netgear.com/support/ or different?
I like to the web site my self and get the update and not use a link in a e-mail.
I also got this e-mail warning of gloom and doom if I did not promptly update my router firmware. No version information, or original release dates, just dire consequences if I do not update right now! Just a little bit of detctive work reveals that I have the latest and greatest firmware, installed last month, and it has very little to do with security!
Has Netgear joined the ranks of FUD despensers?
I'am not sure what is going I looked at some of the links posted and found that I would not trust them enough to download anything little alone to give them any information they ask for.
They look like links to other web sites if Netgear do this why are doing this way?
At lease this is making people think their firmware and who you who want to get it from.
