[tor-bugs] #2870 [Vidalia]: Security breach? Windows version always goes through same 'suspected' USA servers

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#2870: Security breach? Windows version always goes through same 'suspected' USA
servers
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 Reporter:  Al           |          Owner:  chiiph                        
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new                           
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:  Tor Browser Bundle for Windows
Component:  Vidalia      |        Version:  Tor: unspecified              
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Comment(by arma):

 It's entirely possible that kaspersky was preventing you from browsing to
 certain websites directly. Anti virus programs pretty much uniformly suck.

 As for the "my tor client picks a small set of relays to use as its first
 hop", that's a security feature:
 https://torproject.org/docs/faq#EntryGuards

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