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Virus scanner on ReadyNAS 316

jefffriend
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Virus scanner on ReadyNAS 316

I have a ReadyNAS 316 with 6X6TB HDD, giving me 27TB of space.

 

Every day, I get email alerts from the 316 saying that certain files on the volume are infected with various viruses, yet, if I manually scan the files with Norton Antivirus, they report as perfectly fine. In fact, one of the files, DNSBench.EXE, downloaded from Gibson Research Corporation ( grc.com ) is used to test DNS on your PC. The 316 says this file is infected with Win.Trojan.Zbot-9880005-0, but Norton says it is fine.

 

It is really interesting that a full scan of the ReadyNAS volume reports almost 2 million files, a few virus (fixed) but NONE of them are the ones that ReadyNAS reports as infected..

 

Is this common for ReadNAS to report viruses that conflict with antivirus software?

 

Thanks.

 

Jeff.

Model: RN31600|ReadyNAS 300 Series 6- Bay (Diskless)
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StephenB
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Re: Virus scanner on ReadyNAS 316


@jefffriend wrote:

 

Is this common for ReadNAS to report viruses that conflict with antivirus software?

 


It is common for the various AV packages out there to get differing results.   You can report the files to ClamAV (the folks who provide the package that the ReadyNAS uses).  If the results are false positives (pretty likely) they will update their scanner.

 

FWIW, If the devices that put files onto the NAS all have their own AV software, then you likely don't need AV running on the NAS too.

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jefffriend
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Re: Virus scanner on ReadyNAS 316

I live alone and the only device that can add files is my PC, which has Norton. I do allow friends to connect to certain shares through the cloud, but not to add anything, just read..

 

I might let them know about the false positive..

 

Thanks.

 

Jeff

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