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https://www.google.com/search?q=can+viruses+infect+routers
Consider it a bonus.
The router does not have an operating system. It can't execute or spread anything on it's own.
If your connected computer is infected, then the most it can do is to open and read the router setting, and it will be your computer doing the job - to connect to other device and spread virus.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday it has successfully disrupted an effort by Chinese government-sponsored hackers to target U.S. critical infrastructure networks using a malware that had hijacked "hundreds" of home and small business routers.
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In the operation last month, officials said the "vast majority" of compromised routers were Cisco and NetGear routes that were easy to access because they were old – and no longer received the standard security patches or software updates from their manufacturers.
Can we bring the router to a new place, connect to new computers and spread virus? It's impossible.
Unless the infected computer is connected, then it reads all the network ID in that router and spread virus to them. But that is not the router spreading virus, it is the infected computer.