The company’s Umbrella cloud-delivered security service securesĮnterprise users from malware, botnets and phishing on PCs, laptops,Īnd tablets. Results' and a paid advertisement-free service.

It provides anĪd-supported service 'showing relevant ads when we search Protection, and optional content filtering. (DNS) by adding features such as misspelling correction, phishing OpenDNS is a company and service which extends the Domain Name System By virtue of its size, it is well placed to protect against malicious websites. I think it's OK because it seems well resourced (due to its business success), and has otherwise signaled 'good' intentions. Perhaps you should elaborate on your specific concerns? This means, basically, that you have to trust at least one of the servers used.In my opinion, it's perfectly fine to use, and probably a very good option for a home user. There is no option, at least none is in the UI, to add custom resolvers. One downside of the project is that you don't have control over the resolvers. Simple DNSCrypt is an easy to use program for Windows to protect DNS queries against man-in-the-middle attacks. Uninstallation worked without issues on several test systems. There is also an option to Force TCP, and to uninstall the Windows service. Simply put, if caching is enabled, Simple DNSCrypt tries to find the information in the cache before resolvers are used to look-up the information. You can disable DNS caching there for instance. The advanced settings give you more control over the service's functionality. This may take a bit of testing to make sure performance is fine.

You can switch that off under resolvers by selecting one or multiple resolvers from the list.

The service picks the fastest resolver from the list of available servers and uses it. Simple DNSCrypt runs in automatic mode by default. You can uncheck these options as well if you want but it is recommended that you don't unless you run into issues. The program retries resolvers that support DNSSEC and don't log or filter traffic by default.

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