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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
If they are senting e-mails again possible firmware updates that is a nice thing and the fact people always do not keep track of the version of firmware they are running with the ten thousand things we have to do in our lives, so at lease reminds them to check.
