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Specifically, WebRTC leaks two bits of info that may compromise your privacy: Device ID hashes for your microphone & camera The IP address on your local network #1 can be used for browser fingerprinting, allowing the likes of Google and Facebook to secretly track your online activities; luckily it's mostly a problem for Chromium-family browsers, not for Firefox-family browsers like Basilisk. The latter browsers randomize the "salt" used in the hash whenever the browser is started, so unless you leave your browser session running for weeks at a time, the ability of anyone to use #1 as a secret tracking cookie is limited. #2 is more problematic though. It can reveal your "real" address behind a VPN, which could be used for censorship, or alert the authorities that you're accessing "banned" material. More commonly, it will reveal one of those non-routeable local IP addresses starting with 10. or 192.168 assigned by your (real or virtual) router. That's less worrisome, but if it doesn't change often, it too can be used in conjunction with your public IP for browser fingerprinting. If you don't need/use WebRTC, the website linked above contains instructions for disabling it and preventing those info leaks. But what if you do use it? One solution might be the WebRTC Control add-on. This adds a toolbar button that simply toggles WebRTC on or off, a la the popular Flash Disable add-on. So you can leave it off for normal browsing, but turn it on before going to a site that requires it. Edit: Should have checked first. Couldn't install WebRTC Control linked above. All three versions download OK but Basilisk reports that they all appear to be corrupt. Must be a bad hash somewhere Try the "classic" version of Disable WebRTC instead. I think a better solution would be an add-on with a white-list, which would enable WebRTC automatically, but only for sites like Discord and Skype. But I haven't yet found a Basilisk-compatible add-on that has such a white-list

Okay, one more update as of mid-month. KB4487354, a hotfix for those who have already updated with KB4480968 or KB4480957. Quoting Microsoft: "This update resolves the issue where local users who are part of the local “Administrators“ group may not be able to remotely access shares on Windows Server 2008 SP2 machines after installing the January 8th, 2019 security updates. This does not affect domain accounts in the local "Administrators" group." There is a similarly numbered patch at the MS update Catalog for people running Windows 7. I.e., if you're running Vista and discover you can't download files from another PC running Vista, or can't upload files, this patch may fix things. Or it may not not. Or maybe just as well, you might uninstall KB4480968 or KB4480957. Or maybe wait to see if the fix is added to next months Security And Quality Rollup. Of course this problem isn't really likely to happen, but ... We're not dealing with certainties here, but if you've just got to have EVERYTHING on your Vista machine as soon as possible, you'll want this patch. Otherwise ... I'd classify it as an "extra." Not my call actually. This is where I take a step back and give my best salute to GreenHillManiac. I'll trust his judgement.

All right now with the new pm28 build : ENU -> FR ok ! Thank you a lot +++

Behaviour Shield is a purely heuristic module, isn't it? If so, the best one can do is to turn it off / remove it forever. AVG, at least (and I've used it for many years, always was overly paranoid in its heuristics)... in fact, giving it a name which initials are BS is very appropriate. To believe in heuristics, one need at least 20 different opinions, since the engines suck so much. Leave it to Virus Total on-demand. Do not use it as an always-on scanner, because that's just a PITA, nothing more. My 2¢ only, of course! Feel free to ignore. But I'd feel very dishonest with y'all, hadn't I told y'all what my experience with antivirus heuristics is.