opera blocked by firewall af.opera.com

[mollydogus]

mollydogus last edited by

Our meraki is sending off alerts when users load opera saying "url https://af.opera.com/..., server 37.228.108.252:443" Turbo mode is off but we are still reaching out to this IP. Any ideas why? Can we turn this off somehow?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Any ideas why?

Opera is accessing the site to get some info?

Can we turn this off somehow?

The connection to the server? Probably not, unless you block it. But I don't know how it would impact Opera.

[mollydogus]

mollydogus last edited by

Cisco Meraki flags it as "Proxy Avoidance and Anonymizers" which is why it is getting flagged. I guess I can whitelist but I wanted to check to see if anyone knew why it reaches out every couple seconds, seems excessive.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Not using VPN or Turbo? Opera will still contact its servers for the phishing and malware checks, if Sync is enabled and (less often) to check for updates. Not sure which services use that address though.

[mollydogus]

mollydogus last edited by

No both of those are off. Thanks for the input everyone!