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Privoxy Security Related Security for Windows

A web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk.

Privoxy is a software that helps you control access and manage cookies.

Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
What’s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The socket-timeout option now also works on platforms whose select() implementation modifies the timeout structure.
· Previously the timeout was triggered even if the connection didn’t stall.
· The Connection: keep-alive code properly deals with files larger than 2GB. Previously the connection was closed too early.
· The content length for files above 2GB is logged correctly.
· The user-manual directive on the show-status page links to the documentation location specified with the directive, not to the Privoxy website.
· When running in daemon mode, Privoxy doesn’t log anything to the console unless there are errors before the logfile has been opened.
· The show-status page prints warnings about invalid directives on the same line as the directives themselves.
· Fixed several justified (but harmless) compiler warnings, mostly on 64 bit platforms.
· The mingw32 version explicitly requests the default charset to prevent display problems with some fonts available on more recent Windows versions. Patch…

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