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amullinax001's avatar
amullinax001
Aspirant
Sep 03, 2019

orbi wifi with netgear armor

I recently installed Netgear Armor on my Orbi RBR50.  Today i started getting notifications that a malicious url was blocked that was attempted to be reached by my laptop which is at my office and no where near my Orbi network.  Any idea how that's happening?

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  • DexterJB's avatar
    DexterJB
    NETGEAR Moderator

    Hi amullinax001, welcome to the community! Do you have the Bitdefender Total Security installed on the laptop with your Armor credentials logged in?

     

    Dexter

    • DexterJB's avatar
      DexterJB
      NETGEAR Moderator

      Hi amullinax001, thanks for responding. If that is the case then it is normal that you receive alerts for devices under your NETGEAR Armor subscription even though they are not within your home network. That is part of the feature of Armor.

       

      Dexter

      • amullinax001's avatar
        amullinax001
        Aspirant
        Thanks Dexter. I understand the protection and notifications except that the notification is saying the threat was blocked on my home router. That’s where I’m confused. It’s not the end of the world by any means. Just trying to make sure I don’t have some malware somewhere doing something.