How To: Get Rid of Clean Access Agent

So, several people have asked me how to do this, so i will cover it right here. So, you may be asking, "Why would i ever want to get rid of Clean Access?" Well, first, you can use any security software of your choosing, second, you can use Windows 7 (!), and third, who likes to be constantly tracked?

1. Gather the software
OSFuscate
Firefox (which you should have already if you have been following my older posts)
User agent switcher for Firefox

2. Configuring OSFuscate
First, unzip the OSFuscate files (windows should automatically ask you if you want to when you try to run the program for the first time). Then if you are using Vista or Windows 7, right click OSFuscate.exe and click "run as administrator". This will allow you to get through the Windows security blocks. Once the software is open, click the down arrow on the first text box, and select linux.os, then click OK. The software will tell you that you need to restart your computer for it to configure properly, but wait.

3. Configuring Firefox
Open Firefox, and install User Agent Switcher. After Firefox has restarted, go to tools --> User agent Switcher --> Options --> Options... A new screen will pop up, and select User agents from the left hand menue. Then select add... In the new box that pops up you will only eed to type in the first two lines. On the First line, type "Mac OS X Firefox (3.0.7)" (no quotes). On the second line, copy this set of text " Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh: U: Intel Mac OS X 10.5: en-US: rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7 " and paste it. Click OK, then OK on the main screen. When you go to user Agent Switcher in your tools menue, the new profile should pop up. Close Firefox.

4. Make the new profile stay every time you open Firefox up
This part can be a bit tricky if you don't follow it correctly (hopefully i can explain this well). In My Computer, go to C:\Users\insert your user here\AppData . Click on roaming --> Mozilla --> Firefox --> Profiles --> whatever folder is listed --> and right click on "Prefs". Click on the edit option. This should open up a file with a whole list where each line starts with user_pref. Copy and paste " user_pref("useragentswitcher.reset.onclose", false); " on a new line at the end of the file. Make sure Firefox is closed, and save the file.

5. Make sure the new user agent stays on
Open Firefox again, and when you view the user agents from the tools menue, ckick on the new Mac OS X agent you created. Close and restart Firefox, then go back to the user agent menue on the tabs menue, and make sure the new user agent is still selected. If it is not, repeat step 4.

6. Clean and restart your computer
You are almost there! To finish, you just need to uninstall Clean Access Agent, and restart your computer. When your computer boots back up, Clean Access should not pop up, and once you are fully booted up, you should be able to connect to the internet! If you can suf the web, congrats! You are now free of the chains of Clean Access. If not, make sure you followed all of the previous directions carefully.


Feel better now? You should! You should feel free and carefree! And if you tried to do this on a Mac, you probably got stuck on the secont step because this how to does not apply to you. I would like to thank Tyler C. for first showing me how to rid myself of Clean Acess, and I take no credit for coming up with this method. Hope you enjoyed!