unless you set up google dns on your system and if it's showing up in dns leak tests, then kaspersky secure connection must be using it. you can always use browserleaks.com or dnsleaktest.com to check what dns server your system's using.
You are absolutely correct. My question. Could it using public dns servers diminish the anonymity/privacy of this/that VPN?
I sacked Norton on my desktop PC and wanted a VPN. I already have KSC on my laptop, so I couldn't see why not. Around AU$20 (from a third party online store) for 5 devices, unlimited data.
absolutely. a good vpn service provider must use its own private dns servers. public dns server use makes your vpn connection susceptible to dns sniffing and spoofing.
I have several VPN's. Some of them, use exclusively their own Dns servers. Some - this locations through public servers, that location - through private ones. Let's say, I have a well-known VPNSecure . me - from Australia. A very knowledgeable person behind it (but interface just sucks for an average user). Lots of locations and going through the public DNS servers. Another one (I got just as my VPN hobby on a cheap) - everything goes through the public DNS servers.
That depends where I buy the license. Not from Kaspersky, but hopefully I'll find the same or similar deal again next year.
I don't know what's going to happen in the future, but... In 2014, I've purchased a VPN Unlimited app - lifetime - for a very low price = $30 for 10 units. The VPN unlimited - always their private DNS servers and NO ANY KIND OF LEAKS.
yeah, there are hundreds of vpn service providers in the market and unfortunately only a handful of them are trustworthy and reliable. i don't use commercial vpn's. i have a bunch of subscriptions but i rarely use them, most of the time i use private vpn on residential ip's. btw, it doesn't necessarily have to mean that a vpn is solid just because it's using its own private dns servers. but it's sine qua non for a solid vpn to have its own private dns servers.
And that's - casual web surfing - what I need. I know there are a few Wilderssecurity members with lots of knowledge and lots of "special" requirements for their ANONYMITY. I have very simple rules. A fast - with Wireguard - VPN that is not leaking ANYTHING and using their own DNS servers. You've mentioned some web-sites on testing. Here are my favorite ones, besides 'browserleaks" Do I leak, the classic version, bash.ws DNS leak test/perfect privacy ipleak.org ipleak.com/full In addition, I use the the computer VPN app, plus, the browser-based VPN (Proxy) - a different company - extension. It's enough for me.
perfect privacy is run by and has ties with neo-nazi scums. so i wouldn't recommend it. but the others are ok.
Just very recently, I've seen a link at our WildersSecurity about your claim, maybe, it was you that posted it. That link was to some old and and not a very representative web-site. I don't have Perfect Privacy VPN, but I use its testing facilities.
FYI: noticed that when DNS over HTTPS is enabled in Firefox (I tried using the Quad9 url for DOH) that some web sites may not function correctly. I noticed it on a streaming site. Sites that break can be excluded from DOH using about:config but a user having these problems might not know why the particular site is not working.
I've not experienced this. Not that it couldn't happen or that I don't believe it is possible. But it is DNS. I think I would be suspicious of a site that was broken by this.
