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AntiVirus No Longer Updating
Since 30th September, I have been getting an email from my RN214 advising me that the "Antivirus scanner definition file update failed due to download failure. Check your Internet connection." I ...
It appears that I had a similar problem 5 years ago, but in that case running freshclam manually every day was a temporary workaround which doesn't work now.
RN214 Failing to Update Antivirus | NETGEAR Communities
The solution back then looks to have been an OS update from Netgear - I don't hold out much hope for that this time! :-(
The solution back then looks to have been an OS update from Netgear
OS 6.10.6 (2021) updated ClamAV to 0.103:
They'd need to do that again (unless another user manages to do it, and publishes the deb file).
The current ClamAV is 1.4.3, so this could be a pretty heavy lift.
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