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Port scanning on 22
Has anyone else ever seen a ReadyNAS device port scanning on port 22? My network administer shut down access to our NAS because of this kind of scanning on tcp/22. He's assuming the device is compr...
xeltros wrote: Officially you can't. Well officially you should have a backup which means that you never lose data because of the reset because you can always pull it from somewhere else.
Officiously this should be possible but really risky. It would involve SSH into the box, erasing everything except your data and doing a reinstall (since there is nothing on /, all files should be created). That said I am not sure that :
1 - the reinstall will be enough for the system to reboot
2 - that no data will be erased in the process
3 - that the virus/worm will not reinstall himself from the data partition
Isn't that basically the same as doing and OS reinstall? What does the OS reinstall process do, if not recreate all the OS files? I guess I just assumed that's what it does under the hood.
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