Edge using Amazon DNS?

[blackice]

I agree, I haven't installed anything yet, and in thinking about it, I will not install Kaspersky Plus with its 42 modules and all its settings. Granted, some of them can be disabled to only manually run, so I get that part. But when you need a search bar, which was helpful, to find a module or setting, is a bit much. The free version is wonderful though Even their Internet Security had ~39 modules. I had gone to F-Secure Internet Security for its simplicity, protection and its 3 module home screen. So, we'll see

Out of all of them I would still choose F-Secure. Still may reinstall it now that I know that was the cause.

 

[Jonny Quest]

Out of all of them I would still choose F-Secure. Still may reinstall it now that I know that was the cause.

That's where I'm at too, especially since I just bought Internet Security about 2 weeks ago. My only thought for myself, is to hold of on reinstalling it as I thinks the 64-bit release is just around the corner (maybe a month?) and it would be nice to just reinstall F-Secure at that point. Just want to keep from installing/reinstalling if I don't need to. And as with you, I really do like F-Secure, it is still one of my favorites

 

[malwalex]

Just searched this problem and found this forum. It wasn't just Edge, amazon dns was everywhere, Chrome, Foxes, etc. Tried first block amazon by hosts-file, but then I uninstalled F-Secure yesterday and problem is gone. Now, Kaspersky Premium runs lighter and dns servers show as expected.

"Cybersecurity firm F-Secure speeds installation process and boosts customer experience using AWS. The company, which has tens of millions of consumer customers and more than 100,000 corporate clients, has been providing online security services for nearly 30 years. It uses Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda to react to events in real time."

source

 

[TairikuOkami]

I wonder, if you block Amazon IP range for F-Secure would it switch to the default DNS or would it stop working?

 

[Jonny Quest]

I wonder, if you block Amazon IP range for F-Secure would it switch to the default DNS or would it stop working?

I started in trying to do that last Saturday, but it seemed like WhacK A Mole, I probably didn't know what I was doing as a new ip address were replacing the ones I had blocked. I did it in the router settings, so I don't know if Windows firewall would have overridden the router ones. I just didn't want to be doing that on 5 PCS, hoping a router solution would help.

 

[Jonny Quest]

Just searched this problem and found this forum. It wasn't just Edge, amazon dns was everywhere, Chrome, Foxes, etc. Tried first block amazon by hosts-file, but then I uninstalled F-Secure yesterday and problem is gone. Now, Kaspersky Premium runs lighter and dns servers show as expected.

"Cybersecurity firm F-Secure speeds installation process and boosts customer experience using AWS. The company, which has tens of millions of consumer customers and more than 100,000 corporate clients, has been providing online security services for nearly 30 years. It uses Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda to react to events in real time."

source

What is Amazon AWS privacy policy? That is the thing that bothers me is that if I install F-Secure again and having it connecting to 2-8 AWS servers (depending on if I have NextDNS enabled in Brave) is a deal breaker in using F-Secure...or shouldn't it be?

 

[Jonny Quest]

I just posted this question on F-Secure's forum.

Amazon AWS and F-Secure

Hello, A member on MalwareTips brought this to our attention, that if you run a DNS leaktest, it also shows Amazon AWS servers.

community.f-secure.com

 

[blackice]

I wonder, if you block Amazon IP range for F-Secure would it switch to the default DNS or would it stop working?

I believe they use it as part of their web filtering. So you could, but you may lower the ability of F-Secure to do web filtering. I think they use it to filter low reputation DNS calls and use Route 53 to speed up the delivery.

 

[Jonny Quest]

So anyway, back to this. In reviewing F-Secure's fsdiag log file, I came across this. It looks like Lambda installed with a OneClient update on March 22nd, and thus a week or two later, some of us noticed the AWS servers? I'll keep us posted if I find out more from the forum, or from a F-Secure support ticket I started.

What is AWS Lambda? - AWS Lambda

Lambda is a compute service that lets you build applications without provisioning or managing servers.

docs.aws.amazon.com

 

[Milly25]

Thank you for saving my sanity, have been messing with upgrades deletions of browsers reloading Windows and i find this thread.Thank you Jonny and Blackice for pointing problems with AV and F secure ,deleted F secure and now using another AV. who would expect a security suite to leak any DNS

 

[blackice]

Thank you for saving my sanity, have been messing with upgrades deletions of browsers reloading Windows and i find this thread.Thank you Jonny and Blackice for pointing problems with AV and F secure ,deleted F secure and now using another AV. who would expect a security suite to leak any DNS

Technically it’s not a leak per se. If you are using their extension they are examining unknown sites anyway. Now you can just see that it’s happening because of the change in the infrastructure used.

 

[Jonny Quest]

Technically it’s not a leak per se. If you are using their extension they are examining unknown sites anyway. Now you can just see that it’s happening because of the change in the infrastructure used.

Agree, it's not technically a leak per se, but rather their new alliance with AmazonAWS (March of this year?) that some of us are now noticing. Now when I run ip leak tests, sometime it only shows the two ip addresses then one DNS address server (same one as the ip address ones) and sometimes the multiple Google, or Amazon servers. It may have something to do with the searches, but all in all, it's a bit of a mess compared to 2-6 months ago where this had never been an issue.

They are really having a hard time with discontinuing the Freedome app into the Total VPN, usability wise as well as slow web page loading or timing out while using the VPN, which they have come up with a workaround for now...seemingly:

Is it just me or is the VPN insanely slow ?

I am trying to watch crunchyroll from Japan trough a VPN in Europe but no matter which Server I try I only get about 1mbit at best when doing a speed test while being connected to any of the European servers ....

community.f-secure.com

As far as the Amazon servers and what is being seen on our end, was responded to here:

Amazon AWS and F-Secure

Hello, A member on MalwareTips brought this to our attention, that if you run a DNS leaktest, it also shows Amazon AWS servers.

community.f-secure.com

Cheers