
For example, you can connect to some “what is my ip” service like to make sure that it’s not using your real ip. This involves both the program and the proxy that you’re going to use. ALWAYS MAKE SURE THAT PROXYCHAINS.EXE WORKS AS EXPECTED BEFORE USING IT FOR ANYTHING SERIOUS. doing so can be VERY DANGEROUS in certain countries. WARNING: This program can be used to circumvent censorship. The called program may crash, not work, produce unwanted results, etc. Any unexpected situation may happen during usage. WARNING: This program is based on hacks and is at its early development stage. Also, both proxychains.exe and the program to call must be the same platform and architecture (use proxychains_x86.exe to call x86 program, proxychains_圆4.exe to call 圆4 program use Cygwin builds to call Cygwin program). WARNING: This program works only on dynamically linked programs. WARNING: DNS LEAK IS INEVITABLE IN CURRENT VERSION. Target OS should have Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 installed.

Proxychains.exe is tested on Windows (18363.418), Windows 7 圆4 SP1, Windows XP x86 SP3, and Cygwin 64-bit 3.1.2.

It also uses uthash for some data structures and minhook for API hooking. Proxychains.exe is a port or rewrite of proxychains4 or proxychains-ng to Win32 and Cygwin. Proxychains.exe hooks network-related Ws2_32.dll Winsock functions in dynamically linked programs via injecting a DLL and redirects the connections through SOCKS5 proxy(ies).

It hijacks most of the Win32 or Cygwin programs’ TCP connection, making them through one or more SOCKS5 proxy(ies). Proxychains.exe is a proxifier for Win32(Windows) or Cygwin/Msys2 programs. Proxychains.exe – Proxychains for Windows
