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Antivirus False Positives Very High
Hi,
Are other people getting a frustrating number of obvious false positives from the ReadyNAS antivirus? The emails get rather annoying. They generally seem to report Heuristics.Broken.Executable on totally reputable files. A recent update said these would be reduced, but that hasn't been the case for us.
Also, in regards to issues like WannaCry, the antivirus wouldn't achieve anything would it? I'm assuming the virus would simply run from Windows and any encryption or other malicious activity would be seen as legitimate write requests over the network.
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FloodlightMedia wrote:
Also, in regards to issues like WannaCry, the antivirus wouldn't achieve anything would it? I'm assuming the virus would simply run from Windows and any
I don't see how AV could prevent a windows system from encrypting the files in a network share. But if virus-infected executables are copied to the network share, it should detect that.
FWIW, I keep AV off on the NAS. My windows systems all run AV software, and I don't see much need to have it running on the NAS as well.
Yeah, fair enough. It originally seemed like a smart thing to have on for a device that held so much important data, but I am finding it difficult now to think of how it would actually be useful in our case.
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