Opera VPN background NetBIOS traffic

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Opera's VPN tries to send NetBIOS traffic on UDP port 137 by relaying it through the "System" application.

( C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe )

On some Windows platforms this triggers constant firewall alerts because NetBIOS traffic outside the LAN is not allowed by default. I have two questions for the developers:

1. Is it really necessary for the Opera VPN to send NetBIOS traffic?

2. Is it really necessary for Opera to use the OS kernel as proxy (which makes application control more difficult)

[radomuser]

radomuser last edited by

Just found same thing, and I didn't allowed opera or it's garbage vpn to collect any data.