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Re: HELP- Netonix Virus?

Thu Oct 31, 2024 9:01 am

soon..some final testing in progress...

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Re: HELP- Netonix Virus?

Mon Nov 04, 2024 2:37 pm

checking in on rc3 availability

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Re: HELP- Netonix Virus?

Thu Nov 14, 2024 11:57 am

Any expected eta for rc3?

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Re: HELP- Netonix Virus?

Fri Nov 15, 2024 12:10 pm

boxer2t wrote:Any expected eta for rc3?


v1.5.17 is released and its fixed.
But even if using old version if you used access control list you were 100% protected.
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Re: HELP- Netonix Virus?

Sun Jul 20, 2025 7:40 am

So coming in really late to this thread --- I'm curious on the technical workings.

If the switch core is separate from the main CPU and runs its own thing -- why then would this virus that causes 100% CPU loading cause the switch to drop packets and have loss on the switching fabric?

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Re: HELP- Netonix Virus?

Sun Jul 20, 2025 7:49 am

So after a client of mine got infected with this we are trying to reset the Netonix switches to defaults using the reset button, but it seems like the boot loader may have been overwritten? No amount of holding the reset button on a WS-6-mini is causing the switch to go into default/reset mode.

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Re: HELP- Netonix Virus?

Sun Jul 20, 2025 8:22 pm

mhoppes wrote:So coming in really late to this thread --- I'm curious on the technical workings.

If the switch core is separate from the main CPU and runs its own thing -- why then would this virus that causes 100% CPU loading cause the switch to drop packets and have loss on the switching fabric?


The damage the hack does causes vtss_appl to constantly reload.

Every time that process starts up, the current config gets sent over to the switching fabric.

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Re: HELP- Netonix Virus?

Wed Jul 23, 2025 3:40 pm

mayheart wrote:
mhoppes wrote:So coming in really late to this thread --- I'm curious on the technical workings.

If the switch core is separate from the main CPU and runs its own thing -- why then would this virus that causes 100% CPU loading cause the switch to drop packets and have loss on the switching fabric?


The damage the hack does causes vtss_appl to constantly reload.

Every time that process starts up, the current config gets sent over to the switching fabric.


Because the Linux shell controls RSTP, LACP, and so on, and so the switch core is constantly talking to the Linux shell and of the Linux shell is compromised, or services stopped that the core needs this can cause issues.

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