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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.Executabl...
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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