On 26/08/2015 2:54 p.m., Cindy Yang wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope this is the right place to ask for help. A few weeks ago I > updated my laptop to windows 10. It worked great for a few weeks and > then I noticed that certain websites were not able to load. I paid no > attention to it since I figured it was my shitty wifi. Well turns out > I've somehow installed squid cache on my computer and its preventing > me from visiting certain websites. I get the error "The remote host > or network may be down. Please try the request again". > > I don't have the time or patience really to be dealing with this. Can > someone help me in removing or righting whatever I did? Hi Cindy, Good news is I doubt its anthing particular you did. Bad news is that might mean there is nothing you can do about it. The modern popular browsers all have some 'developer tools' or such that you can use to view the page traffic. In particular where the browser is connecting to and what HTTP messages are happening. If you can check the HTTP message headers on the reply the browser is getting back it should show a Via: or Server: headers with domain name(s) hinting at where exacty the Squid is. The rest of this is all maybe and guesswork. So see if you can do the above to get some solid info. ... Firstly, Squid is server software not generally useful for PC or workstations. But *is* commonly used by ISPs or website CDNs. Thats behind the bad-news part. If your ISP is using Squid you need to talk with them about your problems. If its the website owners themselves the same deal, but with somewhat more difficulty finding who to contact. ... On the other hand if Squid is actually on your machine you are going to have to locate how it was installed and see if you can remove the thing it was bundled with. A bit of work but with a solution at the end. Start with your browser settings to see if there is a proxy host:IP or PAC file configured. And also the system "Internet Options" contol panel (was under the Network Sharing last I saw). If there is a localhost, 127.0.0.1, or ::1 configured as proxy address that might just be your AV vendor - so go carefully with changing, but its worth a try. The legitimate Squid for Windows are installed via the normal progm install so should show up in "Programs and Features" control panel. Other ways are a bit nasty. In the far past I've seen some virus using squid and other proxies to grab web traffic on the machine. But that practice seems to have died away, so you would be very unlucky if it was. Well worth a good AV scan anyway though. It may also actually be a part of your AV vendors product - I'm aware of Squid being used somehow by Symantec AV suite / security utilities (for servers), Trend Micro AV security suite (for servers), or any "cloud" based security product. Note that the big names there are server/ISP products not designed for end users devices anyway. So checking the product suitability to your device might be in order. Since Squid is usually network software and you mention wifi, you could be seeing signs of someone hacking your wifi access point. Using only securely encrypted wifi/wireless security is the only way to avoid that. Maybe changing the password/phrase there if it has not changed in a while. Hope this helps. Amos _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
