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Can anyone help? I've been getting the above warning whenever I use Safari 5.1 [I'm on 10.6.8]. I can access Google or perhaps Reddit but eBay, Amazon and almost every other page I get "ERROR: You're still using a legacy immunicity PAC file".
What do these interruptions mean and what do I do? It wants me to uncheck automatic proxy settings in Chrome and Firefox. I don't have Chrome though I do use Aviator. I also use Firefox. There is no mention of Safari, my preferred default, but the message here is for Macs generally. Since I browse the web unrestricted using either of the other two I'm reluctant to change anything. It's all worked perfectly well to up to two days ago and is clearly doing so still to some extent. It's just Safari.
UPDATE: Aviator is now playing up and Firefox can't open web pages. I could really use some help on this please. Here's what I get:-
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ERROR: You're still using a legacy immunicity PAC file
(Immunicity was seized by the UK Police in August 2014!)
You tried to access the URL http://www.ebay.co.uk/
Since August 2014 the UK City of London Police's Intellectual Property Unit has had control of the immunicity.org domain.
In theory they could have intercepted and logged every URL you have visted, they could have proxied your connections and evesdropped on what you were doing!
But there's no need to panic, in August of 2015 the immunicity.org domain was taken from PIPCU by a UK anti-censorship activist group
In the meantime you should disable your PAC file usage and consider using the Tor Browser instead
How to Disable The Legacy Immunicity PAC File
Internet Explorer
Go to Start then Control Panel. (Windows 8 users hover your mouse to the bottom right, click Settings, then click Control Panel)
Find Internet Options (sometimes under Network and Internet), then go to the Connections tab.
At the bottom, click the LAN settings button.
A new dialog will appear.UNtick the box that says Use automatic configuration script.
Press OK, then OK on the Internet Options dialog.
Chrome
In Google Chrome, click the menu button to the right of the URL bar, and choose Settings.
At the bottom, click the Show advanced settings
Under Network, click Change proxy settings.
On Windows, at the bottom click the LAN settings button. A new dialog will appear. UNtick the box that says Use automatic configuration script.
On Mac OS X, UNtick Automatic Proxy Configuration.
On Linux, click Network proxy, DEselect Automatic from the Method drop down menu.
Close the dialogs to save the settings. On Mac OS X, press Apply first.
Firefox
In Mozilla Firefox, go to Options. In Windows, click the Firefox button then choose Options, or go to Tools, then Options. In Mac OS X, go to Firefox, then Preferences. In Linux, go to Tools, Options.
Go to the Advanced tab, then go to the Network tab.
Click Settings next to Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet.
Select 'No proxy'
Press OK, then OK on the Options dialog.
As always; The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Generated Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:35:10 GMT by exit01.brasshorncommunications.uk (squid/3.1.23)
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Does anyone recognize what this is? It's driving me up the wall. I posted a similar message on another forum but got no response at all, which suggests it's a local problem rather than anything more sinister or you'd be hearing complaints all across cyberspace.
Thanks.
What do these interruptions mean and what do I do? It wants me to uncheck automatic proxy settings in Chrome and Firefox. I don't have Chrome though I do use Aviator. I also use Firefox. There is no mention of Safari, my preferred default, but the message here is for Macs generally. Since I browse the web unrestricted using either of the other two I'm reluctant to change anything. It's all worked perfectly well to up to two days ago and is clearly doing so still to some extent. It's just Safari.
UPDATE: Aviator is now playing up and Firefox can't open web pages. I could really use some help on this please. Here's what I get:-
_________________________________________________________________________________________
ERROR: You're still using a legacy immunicity PAC file
(Immunicity was seized by the UK Police in August 2014!)
You tried to access the URL http://www.ebay.co.uk/
Since August 2014 the UK City of London Police's Intellectual Property Unit has had control of the immunicity.org domain.
In theory they could have intercepted and logged every URL you have visted, they could have proxied your connections and evesdropped on what you were doing!
But there's no need to panic, in August of 2015 the immunicity.org domain was taken from PIPCU by a UK anti-censorship activist group
In the meantime you should disable your PAC file usage and consider using the Tor Browser instead
How to Disable The Legacy Immunicity PAC File
Internet Explorer
Go to Start then Control Panel. (Windows 8 users hover your mouse to the bottom right, click Settings, then click Control Panel)
Find Internet Options (sometimes under Network and Internet), then go to the Connections tab.
At the bottom, click the LAN settings button.
A new dialog will appear.UNtick the box that says Use automatic configuration script.
Press OK, then OK on the Internet Options dialog.
Chrome
In Google Chrome, click the menu button to the right of the URL bar, and choose Settings.
At the bottom, click the Show advanced settings
Under Network, click Change proxy settings.
On Windows, at the bottom click the LAN settings button. A new dialog will appear. UNtick the box that says Use automatic configuration script.
On Mac OS X, UNtick Automatic Proxy Configuration.
On Linux, click Network proxy, DEselect Automatic from the Method drop down menu.
Close the dialogs to save the settings. On Mac OS X, press Apply first.
Firefox
In Mozilla Firefox, go to Options. In Windows, click the Firefox button then choose Options, or go to Tools, then Options. In Mac OS X, go to Firefox, then Preferences. In Linux, go to Tools, Options.
Go to the Advanced tab, then go to the Network tab.
Click Settings next to Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet.
Select 'No proxy'
Press OK, then OK on the Options dialog.
As always; The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Generated Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:35:10 GMT by exit01.brasshorncommunications.uk (squid/3.1.23)
_________________________________________________________________________________________
Does anyone recognize what this is? It's driving me up the wall. I posted a similar message on another forum but got no response at all, which suggests it's a local problem rather than anything more sinister or you'd be hearing complaints all across cyberspace.
Thanks.