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Armor vs BitDefender box2
First - when will Amor be available for Orbi (in the Jan 2018 press release it was promised before the Nighthawks) ?
Second, what is the difference in feature set between Armor and the Bitdefen...
In another post a Netgear mod stated that Armor is only supported on Nighthawk routers so it looks like Armor will not be released for Orbi after all. Glad I went with the Box 2 for security.
Armor works like a charm on ORBI RBK50 (March 2019). Still interested in an ARMOR vs Box 2 comparison from someone.
Einrich wrote:
Armor works like a charm on ORBI RBK50 (March 2019). Still interested in an ARMOR vs Box 2 comparison from someone.
I think that may be one person's perception.
Armor, in my view, is a shipwreck with no value added on Orbi. In fact, Armor reports Orbi and all satellites as a significant network threat (of course without any additional information).
Armor also reports other devices as a threat but also indicates those devices have never been scanned. So which one is it?
When considering the other devices that it reports as threats -- also without explaination or remediation recommendations, it is more scareware than anything else. My recommendation is to save your $.
Just one guy's opinion.
- It's moot for me, the firmware that allows Armor broke logging in from the app so I can't enable Armor anyway. Nice work Netgear.
- Well the firmware took twice to work and was updated a day later... Whatever... Could have been smoother.
The Armor went in and told me that none of my machines had any vulnerability issue. I find that surprising. My Mag256 is ok? What about the two samsung tvs? Quid the ps4?
This said... What I m interested in is knowing if the armor monitors traffic on my network? Does it scan packets like an antivirus or is it just a phishing url prevention tool. That I can get for free from a dns provider.
Does it add something to the router's firewall?
