New Anti-Virus in 6,6.1 - How do we control it?

[savek]

Dear Netgear,

after instaalling the new OS, the Anti-Virus app is gone as you have mentioned in other posts already but my question is , how do we control the anti-virus? Can be helpful if you at least make some documentation on how to control that thing or am I missing something ?! Of course making an app that can do that will be great ...

Let us know please? I see lot of confusion in people! 

Vlad

BR

[mdgm-ntgr]

For now if a virus is detected you can deal with the problem manually.

[savek]

could you please be more specifc ? could you please provide me with how-to ?! Is there any offical documentation somewhere online on how to manage the anti-virus manualy ?! And I am not talking about to how just delete a detected file. I would like to know how can I exclude folders from scan, how to shedule scan , how to create rules? 

Thanks

[CVU]

Same here: please could you provide some details of how to deal with the "new antivirus"?  Schedules, default action... There are a few setting that should be included

What if it is a false positive? Are you suggesting that we just go and delete the file?

Saying "for now... manually" does not mean anything. If you have officially deleted the addon app, wouldn´t it be wise to include it in the firmware by default, not just delete everything?

Thanks

[aalexandrebeta]

Some explaining on a pdf file could be apriciated for a dummy like me :).

[FramerV]

Hi aalexandrebeta,

I really apologize about this. As of now, we have no .pdf for it.

Regards,

[aalexandrebeta]

I was just asking because I prefer to know that and give some files to "computer idiots" members of my family who are stuck with papers and explaining!

[StephenB]

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@aalexandrebeta wrote:

I was just asking because...

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It's pretty clear that there needs to be more controls and more information on the scanning.

[aalexandrebeta]

So what is the ETA for a solution for that issue?

[StephenB]

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@aalexandrebeta wrote:

So what is the ETA for a solution for that issue?

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I don't work for Netgear, so I have no idea what they are working on (or delivery dates).

[Jeff_howard]

I desided to just disable it from the settings menu for now untill Netgear can get there act together.

[aalexandrebeta]

So did I a big disapointment

[CVU]

I also decided to go back and disable (as usual) the Antivirus in my RN104. With previous firmwares everything was soo slow, but now with "firmware 6.6.1 with built-in Antivirus" it achieved a total blocking up of the NAS.

From bad to worse.

[aalexandrebeta]

They should optimized a bit the FW!

[YeZ]

For anyone run into the slowness issue after enabling AntiVirus in 6.6.1, here is a work-around before the beta or official firmware with the fix is available: 

1. Turn on SSH service through the Admin Page and SSH into ReadyNAS
2. Remove or comment out the lines starting with OnAccessExcludePath in file /etc/clamav/clamd.conf, save it.
3. Restart the clamav by running this command: systemctl restart clamav-daemon

Note that this clamd.conf configuration file will be overwritten again if re-enabling Anti-Virus, so above steps need to be re-done in that case. 

The AntiVirus used in 6.6.1 is ClamAV. You can Google on how to configure ClamAV to do scheduled scanning etc.