[Privoxy-users] weird windows 10 microsoft responce

[Fabian Keil]

"Ian Silvester" <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote on 2023-06-13 at 13:49:47:

> Hi Iannis,
> 
> Welcome to the mailing list. Whilst I don't use the Windows version of
> Privoxy I can make some general suggestions. 
> 
> First of all, please ensure you are using only the very latest release
> of Privoxy (v3.0.34), available here:
> https://www.privoxy.org/sf-download-mirror/ . I would not advise
> installing open source software from any locale other than the site from
> which it is distributed, and even then we recommend verifying the
> checksum to ensure the software has not been tampered with.
> 
> As for the log file, you can configure the content it displays by
> altering the value of the 'debug' setting in the config file.
> Instructions are here:
> https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#DEBUGGING
> 
> I hope that with this information you are in a position to better
> pinpoint the cause of the unexpected behaviours of you machine. In my
> non-professional opinion they do sound like some form of malware
> infection. I would not a priori suspect Windows Update - though you
> might have disabled the installation of updates, I would not be at all
> surprised if Windows is downloading updates but not (yet) installing
> them.

CC'ing the OP who isn't subscribed to the list.

Fabian
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