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ReadyNAS Pro Business Hacked/Compromised
I have a real problem. About a month ago, my ISP (Time Warner) quarantined my public IP. When I called them, I was told that there was a complaint from Europe that my public IP was trying to brute for...
mdgm wrote: The hacking may not have just affected the OS partition.
If the system is deleted/formatted and installed from firmware, then it doesn't really matter if something is on the data partition because the system is just going to load the system and mount the data volume, not run anything previously compromised.
It's already been explained elsewhere why an option to factory default without losing data is not going to happen
Yes I am well aware of that, that does not mean I can't keep asking. Besides, I don't believe Chirpa officially speaks for the readynas team anymore.
I certainly don't understand why anyone would be *against* the option, if factory defaulting and keeping the data did not solve the problem, you could always do the full default and start with a clean data volume too.
You do realize it takes *DAYS* to backup and restore multiple terabytes of data.. and that is not even using usb, it can take a week or more to restore via usb.
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