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Downloads:

56,305

Downloads of v 290.3.6.1:

1,692

Last Update:

13 Oct 2024

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • London Trust Media
  • Inc.

Tags:

admin vpn tor security privacy multi-platform

Private Internet Access

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290.3.6.1 | Updated: 13 Oct 2024

Downloads:

56,305

Downloads of v 290.3.6.1:

1,692

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • London Trust Media
  • Inc.

Private Internet Access 290.3.6.1

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by London Trust Media, Inc. The inclusion of London Trust Media, Inc. trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify London Trust Media, Inc. goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

Details
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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Private Internet Access, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Private Internet Access, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Private Internet Access, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade pia -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade pia -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install pia
  win_chocolatey:
    name: pia
    version: '290.3.6.1'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'pia' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '290.3.6.1'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller pia
{
    Name     = "pia"
    Version  = "290.3.6.1"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'pia':
  ensure   => '290.3.6.1',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

NOTE

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Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 14 Nov 2024.

Description

Why should I use PIA?

  • Protect Your Privacy and Identity
  • Unblock Censorship Filters
  • Connect Through Our VPN Tunnel in Seconds!

Notes

Starting in version 3.6.1 of this package, 32bit installation is no longer supported and will fail the installation.
If 32bit support is needed, the last package version supporting this is 3.5.7


tools\.skipAutoUninstall
 
tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';

$toolsDir       = $(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)
$ahkExe         = 'AutoHotKey'
$ahkFile        = Join-Path $toolsDir "piaInstall.ahk"

Start-Process $ahkExe $ahkFile

$url = 'https://installers.privateinternetaccess.com/download/pia-windows-x64-3.6.1-08339.exe'
$checksum = 'b407c39d82398aff52602ae98a2b7cd904023a5f6d1e88416dc30b2c31a3cf56'

#$packageArgs = @{
#  packageName    = 'pia'
#  fileType       = 'exe'
#  url            = 'https://installers.privateinternetaccess.com/download/pia-windows-x86-3.3.1-06924.exe'
#  checksum       = '4bc9bfaeeb63870406d4ce403190a4f9fafeadefad2338a45ac235810f423bd0'
#  checksumType   = 'sha256'
#  silentArgs     = ''
#  validExitCodes = @(0)
#  softwareName   = 'pia*'
#}
#Install-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs

Get-ChocolateyWebFile -PackageName "$env:ChocolateyPackageName" -FileFullPath "$(Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)\thefile.exe" -Url $url -Checksum $checksum -ChecksumType 'SHA256' -GetOriginalFileName

Start-Process -FilePath (Get-Childitem -Path $toolsDir -Filter "*.exe").fullname
Start-Sleep -Seconds 20

Remove-Item -ea 0 -Force -Path $toolsDir\*.exe

Start-Sleep -Seconds 60
tools\chocolateyUninstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

#$UninstallArgs = @{
#    PackageName = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
#    FileType    = 'exe'
#    File        = Join-Path $env:ProgramFiles "Private Internet Access\uninstall.exe"
#    SilentArgs  = '/qn'
#}
#Uninstall-ChocolateyPackage @UninstallArgs

$File = Join-Path $env:ProgramFiles "Private Internet Access\uninstall.exe"
Start-Process -FilePath $File #-ArgumentList "/qn"
Start-Sleep -Seconds 30
tools\piaInstall.ahk
#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
; default environment
DetectHiddenWindows False
SetKeyDelay 100

; modified environment
#NoTrayIcon
DetectHiddenText False
SetTitleMatchMode 2


Loop 1000 {
  Sleep(2000)
  If WinExist("Replace existing version?")
  {
  WinActivate
  Send "{y}"
  }

Sleep(20000)

If WinExist("Windows Security")
  {
  WinActivate
  Send "{i}"
  }

Sleep(20000)

If WinExist("Error")
  {
  WinActivate
  Send "{c}"
  }

Sleep(40000)

If WinExist("Private Internet Access")
  {
  Run A_ComSpec ' /c "taskkill /F /T /IM pia-service.exe" '
  Run A_ComSpec ' /c "taskkill /F /T /IM pia-client.exe" '
  ExitApp
  }
}

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In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Private Internet Access 290.3.5.7 2905 Saturday, March 30, 2024 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.5.6 471 Saturday, March 23, 2024 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.5.5 373 Monday, March 18, 2024 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.5.3 1651 Saturday, December 23, 2023 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.5.2 827 Saturday, December 2, 2023 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.5.1 1134 Saturday, October 21, 2023 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.5 827 Saturday, September 30, 2023 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.3.120230717 563 Thursday, September 21, 2023 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.3.120230717-preview03 63 Saturday, August 26, 2023 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.3.120230717-preview02 55 Sunday, July 30, 2023 Exempted
Private Internet Access 290.3.3.120230717-preview01 59 Monday, July 17, 2023 Exempted
Private Internet Access 290.3.3.1 5099 Friday, April 8, 2022 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.3 1191 Friday, February 25, 2022 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.2 1839 Thursday, December 16, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.1.2 945 Sunday, November 28, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.1.1 640 Friday, November 19, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.1 1040 Friday, October 15, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.0.1 2017 Tuesday, August 31, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.3.0 393 Friday, August 27, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.2.10 1107 Monday, July 19, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 290.0 1517 Friday, May 7, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 281.0 858 Thursday, April 15, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 271.0 2086 Thursday, March 11, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 270.0 1383 Monday, March 1, 2021 Approved
Private Internet Access 261.0 1967 Thursday, December 17, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 260.0 894 Thursday, December 3, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 251.0 454 Monday, November 30, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 250.0 1606 Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 230.0 1541 Saturday, August 22, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 222.0 1212 Thursday, July 16, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 221.0 176 Thursday, July 9, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 210.0 1202 Friday, May 29, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 202.0 925 Friday, May 1, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 201.0 849 Thursday, April 9, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 200.0 555 Thursday, April 2, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 180.0 1143 Friday, February 14, 2020 Approved
Private Internet Access 170.0 1161 Thursday, December 12, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 161.0 493 Thursday, December 5, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 160.0 604 Thursday, November 21, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 151.0 1014 Thursday, October 10, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 140.0 842 Thursday, September 5, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 133.0 908 Friday, July 19, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 132.0 469 Friday, July 12, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 121.02688 807 Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 120.02681 353 Sunday, June 2, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 111.02545 1399 Monday, March 11, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 82.0 1044 Monday, January 21, 2019 Approved
Private Internet Access 81.0 1416 Friday, June 22, 2018 Approved
Private Internet Access 80.0 566 Friday, May 25, 2018 Approved
Private Internet Access 79.0 568 Thursday, April 26, 2018 Approved
Private Internet Access 78.0 570 Saturday, March 31, 2018 Approved
Private Internet Access 75.0 550 Thursday, December 28, 2017 Approved
Private Internet Access 2.10 105 Saturday, July 17, 2021 Approved
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