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Combined Windows Privacy Utilities (or CWP Utilities) is an open-source suite of integrated tools for Windows users, to help them guard their privacy and security. It does this by drastically simplifying the work of retrieving, parsing, and structuring data from several different trustworthy blocklists, then combining them into single, usable files, and putting them in their proper places. A simple installer is provided to make everything easily accessible. The program can be installed anywhere on any device that runs Windows, along with USB drives, as all of the utilities dynamically recognize proper system paths. It creates no registry entries, cleans up after itself, and if one chooses to uninstall it, no files are left behind.
CWP Utilities automates the process of maintaining an up-to-date and comprehensive hosts file to block a variety of trackers, advertisements, and malware, on a system-wide level. It also enables the average user to easily keep the blocklists for their file-sharing applications up-to-date and thorough, along with facilitating the natural utilization of a Proxy Auto-Configuration (or PAC) file, for ad and tracker-blocking on less configurable devices (e.g., non-rooted phones). Think of it as a more capable, efficient, and modern replacement for HostsMan, even though it is not as pretty. It can also fetch hosts lists from servers HostsMan cannot, thanks to a current build of wget for Windows.
CWP Utilities currently provides a system tray-based interface and a simple, interactive command-line interface, allowing the user to perform the tasks mentioned above hassle-free. The hosts' file updater automatically installs the resultant list in the proper system location and flushes the DNS cache for immediate use. Along with merging and sorting the data from multiple blocklists out of the box, it also reduces the size of the hosts' file via an optimization script, allowing for slower machines to utilize more extensive blocklists. It de-duplicates the data as well and has an option to create entries that will block malicious traffic over IPv6 too.
The file-sharing block list updaters output their lists in a subdirectory of each tool's folder, which can simply be moved to another directory of the user's choosing after that, or left in place. An explorer window appears upon completion of the block list update, revealing the location of the list. The PAC updater does the same, but a template script is also included that allows for greater flexibility.
All the scripts which perform these routines are configurable directly in a text editor of one's choosing, or via the capable yet straightforward text editor shipped with CWP Utilities.
This set of utilities is inspired by a lot of scripting work I have done over the years to automate repetitive tasks on producer devices, and during stints as a SysAdmin. It is built around significantly friendlier Windows versions of the scripts from producer's Combined Privacy Block Lists repository, which also contains some lists I maintain and more software.
All of the scripts and underlying binaries have been tested on 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10, though it should be all work in Vista as well.
What is new in version 1.7.7 (Released on July 07, 2020):
- Significant improvements to CWP Utilities. The Windows port of PCREGREP has been updated to support a much more comprehensive array of patterns. This streamlined several of the scripts, allowing for greater efficiency in terms of pattern identification and overall parsing speed. Please uninstall the existing installation of CWP Utilities before installing this one. The feature which updates the core scripts of this program (option #15 in the console interface) is still present and will allow you to keep your scripts in sync with this repo for future updates. Nevertheless, this full release was necessary because of replacing the PCREGREP binary and libraries with a new and improved version.
System requirements:
OS: Microsoft Windows® Vista, Windows® 7, Windows® 8, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 10 (both 32 & 64-bit).
Install notes:
1. Extract and run the executable file;
2. Enjoy!
Screenshots:
Virus free! No virus signature! 100% clean!
All credits go to bongochong, who made and shared the application with us!
File: CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.7.exe
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04/70MD5: B4B0503196E381B92C39ABEAB30B565B
SHA1: C4F8E215099549295D83C80DC6D3FA9C4B495DFC
SHA256: CA1BC2C41CE92751176CD7632A5E545B68262C2E20420F00E9EA29CBEDEDA63B
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@Mirkec
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