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mlasky9679
Aspirant
Aug 09, 2021

Armor Is Blocking a Website and Unblocking on Orbi App Doesn't fix It

Hi,

 

Up until yesterday I had no problem with a website that I login into for work.  This morning when I tried I got the following error:

 

Stop!

 

Netgear Armor has blocked this website for your protection, it might contain malware, phishing, fraud attempt, or other forms of criminal...

 

We suggest you go back to safety

 

I would also get the following pop-up on my Orbi App:

 

Privacy Threat Blocked

 

Netgear Armor has detected that your computer is sending unencrypted authentication information and blocked that page.  

 

When I click 'unblock URL' it says the URL was unblocked successfully but won't let me proceed to the website.  

 

The only thing that fixed it was disabling Netgear Armor but I don't want that as the long-term solution, what else can I do?

 

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