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Armor on R8000 does not run Vulnerability Scans
9 days ago I activated the 30 day Armor trial on my R8000 router (Firmware V1.0.4.46_10.1.63) with the primary aim of leveraging the Vulnerability Scan capability for the many devices I have on my n...
Investigating a little further, I am really struggling to see that Armor is doing anything at all beyond giving me a dashboard list of my devices that I already have via the standard R8000 configuration interface.
No threats have been reported - this despite the R8000 itself emailing reports of blocked sites. No Vulnerability scans are reported and now I notice the the Nighthawk app shows me an empty Protection Level History with a "No Data Found" error when I try to view the log after 10 days of operation.
The claimed feature set is very attractive - but does it actually work? Does Armor do anything beyond provide yet another interface?
My experience so far is the R8000 without armor, together with my previous, much cheaper, anti-malware solution provides equally as much functionality - more even; I don't see the point at all of the iOS armor app at all which just replicates services already freely available to all.
Is it worth me investing more time this?
Sorry, me also a new user, (just started using Armor few days ago).
Before purchase Netgear router, I already have Norton on my Macbook.
My Amor dashboard also showing ""No Vulnerability Assessment scan performed yet"
- It’s a total waste of time.
Today I tried this and everything looks ok:
Prior to this, I already installed Bitdefender onto my MacBook,
From my iPad/iPhone start the Nighthawk app, than click the [Amor security] icon.
It will display list of protected devices, those online devices will have a green dot next to it,
than I click the [MacBook] icon, and than click [Device Security],
Next screen it display a button [Run a scan].
I than click [Run a Scan] from my iPad/iPhone
And this trigger the Bitdefender on my MacBook to run scan,
After finish scan, the Amor app on my iPad/iPhone display "Device Scan, Scanned at 01:20PM"
(Scan done at 01:20PM)
and display Threats Blocked (number of threads blocked).