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btaroli
Jan 27, 2017Prodigy
Antivirus scanner found a threat (Unix.Trojan.Mirai-5607459-1) in the file /bin/busybox
6.6.1 on board and just did a fresh install for a new deployment, new drives. Went ahead and enabled AV, and almost immediately got this warning.
Antivirus scanner found a threat (Unix.Trojan.Mirai-5607459-1)
in the file /bin/busybox. Please delete the infected file soon
if automatic delete setting is not enabled.
How in the world is this happening on a fresh install? Very concerned since it's complaining about Mirai. Should I reinstall OS or factory default it again? Could the image in flash be bad? Yikes.
jtowntex wrote:
Same deal, I have had a lot of trouble since the upgrade to 6.6.1 and then today...
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- jtowntexGuide
Same deal, I have had a lot of trouble since the upgrade to 6.6.1 and then today...
Antivirus scanner found a threat (Unix.Trojan.Mirai-5607459-1) in the file /bin/busybox. Please delete the infected file soon if automatic delete setting is not enabled.
- jtowntexGuide
Awesome.
Thanks for all the effort on this everyone. These upgrades were a long time coming I think. I'm glad they're conquering it. It's a shame it didn't go smoother but happily we've got a decent community here to help out those unfortunate ones like us.
- klausnTutor
Hi,
Today I also get this massage!
What is the solution for this issue?
- mdgm-ntgrNETGEAR Employee Retired
Sounds to me like a false positive.
i also got this warning after years of the anti virus working perfectly. Emails now filling in box and getting causing problems at work with phone alerts .
Antivirus scanner found a threat (Unix.Trojan.Mirai-5607459-1) in the file /bin/busybox. Please delete the infected file soon if automatic delete setting is not enabled.
Antivirus scanner found a threat (Heuristics.Broken.Executable) in the file /tmp/clamav-373d76654e49a7aa3ec5fe30a9624822.tmp/content.019 (deleted). Please delete the infected file soon if automatic delete setting is not enabled.
and the same repeated . Now constantly getting email alerts of files which before were not giving alerts its starting to flood my box. How can i stop this without stopping the antivirus fuinction completely?
At present to stop resends of the warnings i will have to stop the antivirus . please help!!!!!!.
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