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Nighthawk MR60 spying on my Internet usage
I installed a new Nighthawk AX1800 WiFi 6 Mesh System only to find that it is now the top user of DNS in my network and it's looking up the hostname of every IP any of my devices visit on the interne...
About half an hour ago I posted a detailed analysis of the top 50 lookups the MR60 is doing.
Was my comment deleted by a moderator?
Most modern forum software will use a range of automated filtering functions that will look for patterns such as a large number of URLs posted at once or various keywords. Sadly it is effectively unavoidable with public forums what want to allow for public registrations without annoying screening processes such as requiring the first few posts to be moderator approved.
I have moderated on a different forum in the past and it wasn’t uncommon to see the system block over 100 bot accounts within a single day, and that is with a captcha system. Sadly many mass spamming operations do effectively captcha farming, or sidejacking style malware where someone’s normal activity provides the data that google recaptcha needs.
Overall until something better comes out many forums will have a range of filters and other automations in place to prevent spam, even though that can have false positives (depending on the content).In focusing more of the core issue, your best bet may be the LAN to LAN setup especially if Netgear armor is enabled and you don't want its cloud related network activity taking place.
The reply that disappeared was mostly just hostnames not URL's.
But anyway, I am keen on trying the LAN LAN mode, but the router is at my elderly parent's house 40 miles away, so I probably won't be able to get down there before Wednesday.
Razor512 To my knowledge, I never enabled Netgear Armor.
How would I check and how would I disable it?
To me, Access Point mode should be "brick-stupid do nothing nothing but bridge the WiFi to my actual router."
That one button to turn on AP mode should disable all this other gratuitous nonsense. :-/
Typically if you use the nighthawk app to set the device up then it automatically enables Netgear Armor. While more experienced users will be fine without it, if someone is new to computing, or infect their system via malvertising, then armor is pretty useful as if a malicious ad makes it past their adblocker, then at least the malware will not download in the vast majority of situations.
Aside from that, with the AP mode, it may be due to most people wanting to retain as many value add features as possible while in AP mode, as compared to just being a transparent bridge for the WiFi radio.
