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eph3
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Jun 15, 2020
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ReadyNAS 628 Virus definitions not loading

A few days ago I activated the antivirus on my encrypted ReadyNAS 628 under OS 6.10.3. This resulted in a never ending series of errors in the logs:   System: Antivirus scanner definition file upda...
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    Jun 16, 2020

    A day and a reboot later, the log has not accumulated any more of the messages

       System: Antivirus scanner definition file update failed due to download failure. Check your Internet connection.

     

    After I rebooted, there was one anomaly in FrontView/System/Overview. It showed Antivirus as green but with a little status message

       Updating virus library. Refresh to update status

    next to the green circle ( • ).

     

    A few minutes ago I get the alarm (yellow message)

       Antivirus scanner definition file was updated to 59.25845

     

    I pressed the Refresh button on the FrontView/System page and Antivirus now says

       Jun 16, 2020 09:01:35 AM

    instead of "Updating virus library. Refresh to update status"

     

    I guess this means everything is working properly again, but I have no idea why I had to manually install the antivirus libraries to get clamav back on the rails.

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