PIA "Killswitch" Not De-activating

Lurkios

Using Windows 7 x64 and the PIA application, the "Internet Killswitch" seems to work by removing the default route on your network adapter. Problem is, when the kill switch is de-activated or the PIA application is closed, it doesn't seem to restore it. Am I missing something here? Is this intentional?

Max-P

Hi,

Are you using a static IP address by chance? I think there's a bug at the moment where in some Windows 7 installs, it fails to restore it when it's a static IP and not a DHCP one, not sure why.

Lurkios

Max-P said:

Hi,

Are you using a static IP address by chance? I think there's a bug at the moment where in some Windows 7 installs, it fails to restore it when it's a static IP and not a DHCP one, not sure why.

I am indeed. Need a fix on this, PIA folks. That's a fairly severe issue.

piaabo

If you haven't done something similar already, while waiting for the fix the following may help to quickly add the default route.
Create a notepad file on your desktop with the contents:

@echo off
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1

If needed, change the ip number 192.168.0.1 to your router/gateway ip.

Change the file name extension from .txt to .bat

Change permission of the file to run as admin (perhaps with admin access only to prevent non-admin abuse)

Just click this whenever you disconnect PIA. (accidental clicks while PIA is running will be removed automatically by its killswitch function)

Lurkios

Thank you piaabo - I have something similar set up with a trigger for when the PIA app is exited. I've been trying to work with PIA support on the issue - but so far the response has been incredibly disappointing. Extremely slow and not at all helpful.