Re: excuse me!
Yes, they should have given guidance about how to tell whether or not your device is affected first. From what I've read, they're detecting it by examining the traffic it sends, so they may be assuming that SOHO equipment operators don't have the skills required to sniff their network traffic.
If you're affected, a factory reset is perfectly reasonable. It may expose you to earlier vulnerabilities, but you're essentially trading a situation where you're certainly compromised for a situation where you may become compromised. One of those shit sandwiches tastes worse than the other.
The best thing to do, though, is replace the equipment with something else that isn't affected by this. The world is chock full of alternatives here.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
