Why I see hops on traceroute while I'm using Kaspersky Secure Connection?

[achernar]

System: MacOS Big Sur 11.4 

In past, When I open Kaspersky Secure Connection and try “traceroute google.com”(or any domain) , then I’ve seen only one hop and this hop was target address(etc. google server in Netherland). But now when I try traceroute there are many loss hops “*”, after 10-12 loss hops then target address shown and finish traceroute. 

I means kaspersky secure connection not working? 

[Berny]

@achernar Welcome. 

Request timeouts messages in a traceroute are very common and this doesn’t mean Kaspersky VPN isn’t working, also some servers are blocking traceroute packets.

[achernar]

@achernar Welcome. 

Request timeouts messages in a traceroute are very common and this doesn’t mean Kaspersky VPN isn’t working, also some servers are blocking traceroute packets.

thanks