Comparing the SHA256, SHA1, and MD5 hashes of your downloaded file with the official published ones will provide additional assurance that the download is legitimate and has not been modified. You can compare the hashes with programs included with macOS without the need to install additional software.
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To prepare for verifying signatures, you should download and install GnuPG 2.2.3 or higher, and then add the Tunnelblick Security GnuPG public key (key ID 6BB9367E, fingerprint 76DF 975A 1C56 4277 4FB0 9868 FF5F D80E 6BB9 367E) to your trusted GnuPG keyring by typing the following into /Applications/Utilities/Terminal:
These downloads have been contributed by users and usually help deal with special circumstances. They are not endorsed or checked by the Tunnelblick project, and you use them at your own risk. To contribute a download, send it to the developers or post it on the Tunnelblick Discussion Group.
In June 2015 there was much discussion (and outrage) about SourceForge providing downloads that contain unwanted or malicious software; SourceForge has changed their policies to help avoid this. Tunnelblick binaries were hosted on SourceForge from the fall of 2013, when Google Code stopped hosting new binaries, until 2015-07-17, when they were moved from SourceForge to GitHub.
Tunnelblick protects against unwanted software insertions by publishing the SHA1 and MD5 hashes for each of our downloads. You should verify the hashes of all Tunnelblick downloads by following the instructions above.
When you install any application, including Tunnelblick, after it has been downloaded normally, macOS Mojave and higher send information to Apple (they "phone home"). macOS Catalina and higher also "phone home" each time you launch any application, including Tunnelblick.
You can avoid these behaviors, but you will be disabling security checks which macOS would normally do on a downloaded program, including checks that the program is correctly notarized and has been found to not contain malware.
This will download the file to your Desktop without the flag that indicates the file was downloaded from the Internet. When that flag is present, macOS Mojave and higher "phone home" when the downloaded file is double-clicked to install it; when the flag is not present, macOS Mojave doesn't.
[1] Tunnelblick downloads are redirected from the tunnelblick.net website to GitHub, which may redirect them further. Typically one or more tiny downloads (a few hundred bytes each) provide information about the redirection, and the final larger download is the desired file.
Specify whether or not you wish to have Tunnelblick check for updates each time it is launched. When an update is available, you will be given a choice of whether to install the update or not. Tunnelblick checks for updates by making a request to the tunnelblick.net website each time it is launched, and every 24 hours thereafter while it is running. As part of its normal website operation, the website keeps a log which includes information about such requests; see tunnelblick.net Privacy for details.
Specify if Tunnelblick should check that your computer's apparent public IP address changes when you connect. This checking may help insure that your configuration is correct, and may help Tunnelblick diagnose DNS problems. Tunnelblick does this checking by making a request to the tunnelblick.net website before each attempt to connect to a VPN and after a successful connection is made. As part of its normal website operation, the website keeps a log which includes information about such requests; see tunnelblick.net Privacy for details.
Freeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations. Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use).
This license is commonly used for video games and it allows users to download and play the game for free. Basically, a product is offered Free to Play (Freemium) and the user can decide if he wants to pay the money (Premium) for additional features, services, virtual or physical goods that expand the functionality of the game. In some cases, ads may be show to the users.
This software is no longer available for the download. This could be due to the program being discontinued, having a security issue or for other reasons.
Tunnelblick is a free open source graphics program. The problem is not that you have it, it is the source that it came from. It could have come (or you could have downloaded it from) ... Softonic, cNet or other malware inclined sites.
As to how the file could have been installed without ever having installed Tunnelblick, one way is if you installed a "rebranded" version of Tunnelblick. That's a program that uses the Tunnelblick source code (it is free software so anyone can download it) and changes the name "Tunnelblick" to something else. If the rebranding is done incorrectly, some files like net.tunnelblick.tunnelblick.LaunchAtLogin.plist aren't rebranded.
If you have difficulty with the version you downloaded and you're on OSX 10.7.5 or higher, then try the latest beta release from . For older versions of OSX there is no readily available alternative. 2ff7e9595c
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