On the downside, there's no way for you to manually run a scan. It checks for password strength, firmware version and any weakness that can be used as a backdoor attack vector. Second, the Box runs vulnerability scans on every device on the home network every three days. Unfortunately, you can't remove sites from the blacklist, but you can add sites using Bitdefender's antivirus software.
This feature depends on Bitdefender's constantly updated URL blacklist. First, it monitors the URLs to which every internet-ready device in a home - computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, webcams and home-automation devices - tries to connect, and blocks connections to known malicious sites. Instead, the Bitdefender Box works at four levels. The closest analog to the Bitdefender Box would be a business network-security appliance made by the likes of SonicWALL or Tofino, except that the Box doesn't do the deep-packet traffic inspection that might reveal malicious code. We'd like to see guest-network support in a future Box firmware update. Coincidentally, putting Internet of Things devices on a guest network solves many of the same security problems the Box itself is meant to address. Nor can the Box protect the guest Wi-Fi networks, intended for visitors, that many modern home routers support.
