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amullinax001
Sep 03, 2019Aspirant
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...
DexterJB
Sep 04, 2019NETGEAR 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
Sep 04, 2019Aspirant
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.