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I just updated my Netgear firmware and am now constanty seeing my Nortin Antivirus blocking someing called 'fake_upd'... anyone heard of this, what is it, and how do I make it go away?
Big thank you to Antidode and Myersw for the suggestion to remove the NetGearGenie App from my Mac. That removed the probem. I will take your suggeston and use the NetGear website exclusively. I spent hours on the phone with NetGear - where they offered to have me pay $100 to remove the problem. When I saw your suggestion to remove the App, I did a head slap, then followed you advice... now I am problem free. Well done to you both!
Unfortunately, that post dosen't tell me anything. No solutions were given for the porblem - just others asking the same question/having the same complaint.
From what to what? Router firmware, or desktop Genie program (on what?), or what?
> [...] 'fake_upd' [...]
"fake_upd" or "fake_udp"?
> [...] pertained to a Mac [...]
In that other thread, at least some of the blame was assigned to "Netgear Genie to Version 2.4.12", but it's hard to find a problem report with enough (accurate) detail to determine much.
I use a Mac which is running High Sierra V10.13.6.
I updated the firmware on both my router (R7000) as well as the new router extender (EX7000). I don't know what the previous firmware was but the current firmware on the router is V2.4.38 and the current firmware on the extender is V1.0.1.78_1.0.140. I performed the updates to the Router and Extender from NetGearGenie, and Netgear websites respectively.
Unless I really needed some feature which only the Genie app provides, I'd discard it, and stick with the web-browser interface.
I agree. The apps that are supposed to be helpful seem to cause more headaches then just pointing browser at the router's IP address which is usually 192,168.1.1. I personally have never found where I wished I had one of the Genie apps installed.
Please query the Internet security **** vendors about _their_ messages - for an explanation, for a risk description, for a possible remediation. This message is not generated by Netgear, neither by the router or extender firmware nor by the Genie program/App.
> [...] This message is not generated by Netgear, neither by the router > or extender firmware nor by the Genie program/App.
Well, duh. The _message_, whatever/whoever emits it, refers to an _action_ by "NETGEARGenie.app", as seen in the cited thread. Why any part of "NETGEARGenie.app" is trying to open a UDP connection to "0.0.0.163:55" is a mystery to me, but I can see why some anti-virus program might complain about it.
It's such nonsense that, personally, I'd be tempted to "Allow" "Only 0.0.0.163 and UDP port 55 (isi-gl)" just to shut it up, but I'd like to see an explanation from Netgear of the purpose of this nonsense.
Big thank you to Antidode and Myersw for the suggestion to remove the NetGearGenie App from my Mac. That removed the probem. I will take your suggeston and use the NetGear website exclusively. I spent hours on the phone with NetGear - where they offered to have me pay $100 to remove the problem. When I saw your suggestion to remove the App, I did a head slap, then followed you advice... now I am problem free. Well done to you both!
