Does Homeshield Basic Include Malicious Site Blocker and Intrusion Prevention
Just upgraded my Deco network with XE75 units. Does Homeshield basic include both of the following without a subscription?
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Malicious Site Blocker
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Intrusion Prevention
The sites are very vague on this point. Not including them for free would give me the impression these routers don't provide basic firewall protection.
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@Dawgfan Hi, Malicious Site Blocker and Intrusion Prevention are part of Real-time protection and it needs a subscription.
On the HomeShield Basic, it is allowed to manually add the blocked websites and content categories under Parental Control.
Best regards.
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Quick Addition Here: On the TP-Link Website there is a page detailing the features that are available when upgrading to the premium service.
The page can be found here: https://www.tp-link.com/us/homeshield/
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Thanks for the info. A couple of follow-on questions:
- With regards to malicious content filtering, what specifically does it do? How is it different from what McAfee/Norton does or what Windows/iOS build-in security features already do?
- I'm confused on "intrusion prevention". By nature, isn't intrusion prevention what all routers do? How is "port intrusion prevention" different from what a router just does by the fact it is a router?
Thanks.... Kent
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