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Amcd8534
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Jan 21, 2018

Orbi RBR50 - Avast Vulnerability Issue

I currently have an Orbi RBR50 router with RKR50 satellite.  I'm running Avast Premier for anti-virus and when i run a network scan, it continues to detect vulenerabilities within my router.  Two dif...
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catmom
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Jan 30, 2018

I had same issue.  Tech support was no help but I discovered that the problem was with the guest network.  Even though it was not set up, the broadcast box was checked and the Security level was set at None.  Avast did not like this.  Log in, go to Guest Network, uncheck the broadcast box.  I also checked the appropriate security option just for good measure.  Then hit "apply".  Now when I run Avast, I dont get any security warnings.  FYI, I also tried setting up the guest network but that created another problem (much posted about this on other forums) so I don't recommend doing that.