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GLar's avatar
GLar
Follower
Apr 08, 2019

How do I turn off Armor/Bitdefender on my Orbi Router

I foolishly accepted trying Netgear's Armor by BitDefender on my Orbi Router mesh and it is now blocking long-used very safe sites that I urgently need for my work, yet there is not obvious way to ei...
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kellypk65
Initiate
Apr 09, 2019

I use the iphone app so here's what i did while in the app:

 

In the upper left-hand corner there is a icon of a circled house. Click that

Next choose "Settings"

Next choose "Security"

Turn off the "Enable NETGEAR Armour" switch. 

 

hope that helps. 

 

 

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IanB1015
Aspirant
Mar 29, 2020
While this is helpful shutting it off, I wish I could exclude IP addresses entirely from the app or from the router GUI. It would make life a whole lot easier because I only want to exclude the one work device.