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Antivirus false positives
ReadyNAS 4312, Firmware 6.7.5 This option was not available in the drop-down menu when creating this post. We are receiving a number of warning emails from the anti-virus software on the NAS abo...
I'm getting the same AV email message on multiple files since I upgraded to 6.9.0:
Antivirus scanner found a threat (Heuristics.Broken.Executable) in the file /data/Shared/Jobs/Desktop File Back Up/Notes/nntspreld.exe. Please delete the infected file soon.
It seems there are no solutions to this. I've been told just to ignore the warnings or turn the virus scanner off.
Isn't that wonderful!
Why bother having it!
Tell me about it, seems Netgear have ditched working on a solution or just ignored this completely. Apparently there were some decent 3rd party virus scanner apps available in the past but I can't find any so I think they've either been removed or discontinued.
I've just configured the alerts to get sent to the bin.
I agree that not having any controls on the AV package makes it of little practical use - I've turned it off altogether, and depend on the AV protection in my PCs.
If these are false positives, you could try reporting them directly to ClamAV ( https://www.clamav.net/contact ). That should result in an updated definition later on.
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