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Aspirant

Sep 15, 2021

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RN104 and RN102 6.10.5 (Hotfix1) Anti-Virus not availebel

Hello,

i can not finde Anti-virus under System - Settings - Services, the same on my RN102 with same Firmware. Has netgear anti-virus been cancelled for the models?

Sandshark
Sep 16, 2021
Yes. Due to memory limitations, AV is no longer an option on 100 series NAS. That has been the case for a few updates now. With the reports I've seen in the forum of problems with AV updates, I'm not sure that's not a blessing forcing your hand. I've never enabled AV on my NAS. Every computer with write access to it has active AV, so one should never get there, and the lack of configureability of ClamAV (mostly, what happens to files with viruses detected) just makes me consider it not ready for prime time.

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Sandshark
Sensei
Sep 16, 2021
Yes. Due to memory limitations, AV is no longer an option on 100 series NAS. That has been the case for a few updates now. With the reports I've seen in the forum of problems with AV updates, I'm not sure that's not a blessing forcing your hand. I've never enabled AV on my NAS. Every computer with write access to it has active AV, so one should never get there, and the lack of configureability of ClamAV (mostly, what happens to files with viruses detected) just makes me consider it not ready for prime time.
- MMueller
  Aspirant
  Sep 17, 2021
  Thanks for the information, I was just surprised that I didn't find anything about it and that the KB doesn't say anything about it either. But I agree with you that actually every PC should already have a protection and therefore nothing can happen on the NAS.
  Greetings Marcel
  - StephenB
    Guru
    Sep 17, 2021
    MMueller wrote:
    
    I was just surprised that I didn't find anything about it
    
    FWIW , it was announced here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Announcements-Stories/Changes-coming-in-RNOS-6-10-0/td-p/1701260
    
    There is a also a short note saying it was removed in the 6.10.0 release notes.