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greg1184
Follower
Nov 16, 2019

Printer spontaneously prints when Netgear Armor Security Scans

I am having an issue regarding the Netgear armor security software. Each time it runs a vulnerability scan my printer spits out a few pages saying the following:   HEAD / HTTP 1.1 Host: x.x.x.x:91...
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DonH1
Aspirant
May 21, 2020

My Brother HL 3170cdw Laser Jet is doing the same.  I have the R7000 AC1900 Nighthawk that came with Bitdefender.  After reading a lot of posts from others pleading for help, I saw that updating the firmware for my printer may work.  I wouldn't be so bothered by this, but it prints these 3 pages around 2am which wakes my wife (very light sleeper) and I get to hear about it.  I don't get what this does or why it is doing it...When I read about disabling Armor does that mean Bitdefender?  I ask because I don't see an Armor application to close.