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Armor is a Bummer
Netgear... I've loved your products for years, but you should BE ASHAMED to have released Netgear Armor in this state. I am an executive for a fortune 5 company and have been responsible for the deve...
Wow! That's a mouthful of rants BinkyTheClown
Exception made for a few hiccups here and there, I am actually reasonably please with Netgear Armor, but not so much with Bitdefender Total Security. So my take on this is the complete opposite of yours -- Bitdefender has some work to do here.
Netgear Armor is working just fine, albeit powered by Bitdefender. BD Total Security has some issues that need to be addressed, and the sooner the better.
Yes, I'm ranting a bit, but I have reason to rant. Given extremely positive experience with Netgear I (foolishly) installed Armor and its agents on Win7 PC, Mac Pro, iPad Pro and IPhone7 as my starting point. After never ending alerts and a massive drop out of performance (on the devices) I uninstalled Armor from the router and attempted to uninstall the agents/Bitdefender from the devices. For Win7 is was relatively straight forward. For iOS it was VERY unclear. Apart from deleting the Bitdefender app, it is unclear if it is actually removed fully. iPhone7 seems ok. iPad Pro is lagging and has 15-20 second periods where it becomes unresponsive. Prior to Armor it ran incredibly well. Mac Pro seems ok but I haven't been testing it as much. Overall, I am still in the process of trying to clean this stuff off my devices. I am contemplating a factory reset of my RBR50 router and iPad Pro.