kpatzMY HEAD A SPLODEPremium
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Manchester, NH | reply to Noah Vail
Re: Nothing is scared... said by Noah Vail:The interesting thing will be how we deal with it. With a PC virus, we update our virus defs and maybe scan the system. Then we forget about it. With this, we'd have to update the firmware, to either treat or prevent infection. That will mean having to enter our settings from scratch. That's a pain. From what I've read, at present this malware doesn't touch the firmware, instead it loads into (volatile) RAM and runs from there; thus, it's gone as soon as you powercycle the router.
So, if something gets infected, just disconnect it from the WAN, powercycle it, then change the password to something stronger and/or disable telnet/ssh, plug it back in, and you're set.
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