Combined Windows Privacy Utilities

When dealing with internet privacy and malware dangers, it's as difficult to pinpoint the problem as it is to fix it once you understand there are many factors contributing to it. Combined Windows Privacy Utilities offers a series of applications and tools to face a series of potential issues when using the internet.

This particular program is both a system tray app and a command-line tool. This means that its icon will always be present in the tray, whether you are executing any of the tools included in the package or not. It can be run on any type of storage media, so long as it's Windows you're running on your device.

What this app manages to do is help the user block elements such as ads, trackers, and malware that could make their way on your PC. How does it do that? Through a series of protocols and tools it has integrated in its structure.

The hosts file update procedure flushes DNS cache and replaces entries in the original file, creating a block list for those unsafe domains. The application also manages to block potentially dangerous traffic that might be going through IPv6 protocol.

Proxy Auto-Configuration, a JavaScript function, should basically check if your web browser requests go directly to your intended destination or if any are forwarded to a proxy server. The PAC updater also has a template script which allows knowledgeable users to simply improve the tool's working algorithm.

You can also manage your torrent block lists through this app, by updating your DAT or P2P block lists. That way you can avoid any unexpected intrusions.

While the application itself attempts to automate these various processes that keep your computer a bit safer, provided the user is more knowledgeable in the networking field and finds that some adjustments could be made to the way this app handles itself.

This allows the app to be more flexible and adjustable on-the-spot. Launch your preferred text editor and edit those scripts to your liking. While the interface of the app is a tad simplistic, in this particular case, since we're talking of a raw-functionality-offering tool, it's alright. The command-line scripts work very well.

Combined Windows Privacy Utilities is an app that includes many tools for use against malware, ads, or tracking, something that should come in handy to each and every one of us considering the increase in internet usage and subsequent higher cybernetic attack probability.