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rob970
Jun 04, 2021Aspirant
ReadyNAS virus threat
Hello, I have a ReadyNAS 202, today I received an alert message saying that the antivirus scanner has found a threat Heuristic.XZ.DicSizeLimit) in the file /var/backups/md/raid_config_2016_06_30_07...
- Jun 06, 2021
Hi Stephen
Thankyou very much for your reply, you have reassured me.
Best regards,
Rob
StephenB
Jun 06, 2021Guru - Experienced User
rob970 wrote:
Hello, I have a ReadyNAS 202, today I received an alert message saying that the antivirus scanner has found a threat Heuristic.XZ.DicSizeLimit) in the file /var/backups/md/raid_config_2016_06_30_075001.tar.xz. Please delete the infected file soon.
Where is the antivirus page to delete said file?
AFAIK there is no page to do that.
This sounds like a false positive - the file has been there for 5 years. It's not accessible to users, and isn't an executable, so it's fine to just to leave it be.
rob970
Jun 06, 2021Aspirant
Hi Stephen
Thankyou very much for your reply, you have reassured me.
Best regards,
Rob
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