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Tor binaries are not removed after they have already been downloaded when disabling Tor by settings or group policy

See original GitHub issue

Description

Follow up of #9177 - Disable Tor by settings and the group policy is not working in windows

Steps to Reproduce

Disable Tor by settings

Launch Brave with clean profile
Open tor window
Wait for tor process launched
Close Tor window
Go to brave://settings/extensions
Turn toggle Private Window with Tor off
Go to user folder and tor executable component should be gone (cpoalefficncklhjfpglfiplenlpccdb/Windows)

Disable Tor by group policy (Windows)

Launch Brave with clean profile
Open tor window
Wait for tor process launched
Exit Brave
Open regedit
For 64 bit, create the following keys:
BraveSoftware\Brave under the existing key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies
(for 32 bit, you can edit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies) Create a DWORD value at this path called TorDisabled and set the value as 1
Launch Brave
Go to user folder and tor executable component should be gone (cpoalefficncklhjfpglfiplenlpccdb/Windows)

Actual result:

The executable component cpoalefficncklhjfpglfiplenlpccdb is not gone from profile folder in windows

Expected result:

The executable componentcpoalefficncklhjfpglfiplenlpccdb should be gone from profile folder in windows

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.13.73 Chromium: 84.0.4147.125 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
Revision	d0784639447f2e10d32ebaf9861092b20cfde286-refs/branch-heads/4147@{#1059}
OS	Windows 10 OS Version 1903 (Build 18362.1016)

Version/Channel Information:

Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? NA
Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Not sue
Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?

Other Additional Information:

Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? NA
Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? NA
Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? NA

Miscellaneous Information:

cc: @brave/legacy_qa @darkdh @rebron

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

darkdhcommented, Dec 3, 2020

@bsclifton with https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/6081, it should be cleaned up when it is disabled no matter through settings or group policy

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darkdhcommented, Dec 3, 2020

I also can not reproduce it on Windows, @GeetaSarvadnya can you make sure if you grabbed the correct version of Brave? Or could you just try our currently Nightly if this is still reproducible?

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