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curtswanson
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Malware on Network Drive

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‎07-13-2012 08:06 AM

A couple of weeks ago I brought a friend's computer home and removed the brontok worm from it. Yesterday, I moved some files to a 160 GB WD Netcenter NAS and my anti-virus programs began going nuts. They kept finding the brontok worm on the NAS. No attempts to clean it from my computer worked. I know the device is old and most will recommend to replace it but I would like to clean it up, salvage the data on the device and keep using it. Any advice on how to proceed?
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Alucardx23
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Re: Malware on Network Drive

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‎07-15-2012 01:47 PM

Did you tried booting in safe mode?

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Vadir2
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Re: Malware on Network Drive

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‎07-20-2012 10:39 AM

The file system in the Netcenter is Linux, very unlikely that it might be affected by a virus.  I recommend you to try to access it from another computer to compare results.

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