Sometimes they work, and sometimes I have to close one or the other, or every connection gets blocked. I haven’t blocked anything from Proton VPN on Portmaster - just some Windows services and domains that don’t break the internet when Proton VPN is off.
Do you have any idea what may be happening or how I can discover what’s going on?
- both on the free plan.
Edit: I might have figured it out. It seems like they are fighting over DNS resolving. When I removed the DNS settings from Portmaster (it’s already set in the browser anyway), it started working again :)
Windows Defender will pick up any alterations to hosts file and revert it back to default. You have to whitelist the file before setting up any changes.
I use Hostsman, and I haven’t found that to be true, but again, I don’t discount it either.
Right. I get that, however, I am stumped as to why everyone else has issues but I don’t seem to. I do run Windows Defender. It’s one of the very few I kept.
I wonder if Windows Defender is parsing the hosts file and flagging specific entries. Perhaps your program knows what is flagged through trial & error, while I did more of an aggressive blanket approach.
It’s the only thing I can think of.
I’m not quite certain at this point. LOL I’ve used HostsMan forever it seems and never gave it a second thought because it just worked. I also wonder if logging in to a local account vs your Microsoft account in Windows makes a difference.
IDK, my .host file contains 60,633 entries. Not sure you could get more aggressive than that. LOL
I’m going to have to do some reading. This intrigues me.