SelekTOR Help
Author: Alistair Neil

SelekTOR Main Window Interface Options

Active Country
Select your desired exit country here. SelekTOR will retrieve the available exit nodes for this country if it has any.

Proxy Mode : Disabled
Proxying via SelekTOR/Tor is disabled, SelekTOR will no longer exert any control over the system proxy settings.
Manual configuration of your web browser proxy settings will be required.

Proxy Mode : Proxy all traffic
Enable this mode to proxy all traffic through the active tor proxy node.
Uses 3 hop circuits for best anonymity (Tor default)
Not suitable for streaming.

Proxy Mode : Proxy by pattern
Enable this mode to proxy selectively by URL pattern through the active tor proxy node.
Uses 2 hop circuits for best latency and sacrifices some anonymity.

Set Guard Nodes
Opens the guard node selection window.

Node Table Options (Right Click)

Node Details
Brings node details of the selected node in your default web browser, provided by Atlas.

Whois
Provides whois information of the selected node.

Begin Test Cycle
Starts a round of node testing.

Active Circuit Information

Nickname
The assigned nickname for the node

IP
The ip address of the node.

Country
The country in which the node is located.

BandWidth (MB/s)
This indicator shows the reported bandwidth of the active node.

Stable
Whether the node has enough uptime to be considered stable.

Latency (ms)
This indicator shows the latency to the test URL via the currently selected Tor exit node. The latency provides an indication of the response time of the node in milliseconds, where 1000ms = 1 second.

Streams
This indicator shows the number of active streams on the active node.

SelekTOR System Tray Interface Options (Right Click System Tray Icon)

Proxy Mode : Disabled
Proxying via SelekTOR/Tor is disabled, SelekTOR will no longer exert any control over the system proxy settings.
Manual configuration of your web browser proxy settings will be required.

Mode: Proxy All
Enable this mode to proxy all traffic through the active tor proxy node.
Not suitable for multimedia streaming.

Mode: Proxy by Pattern
Enable this mode to proxy selectively by URL pattern through the active tor proxy node.

Hide / Show GUI.
Change GUI visibility.

Quit SelekTOR.
Quit the application.

SelekTOR Basic Preferences Options

Hide To Tray on Startup
The GUI will be hidden on start up, can be made visible again by double clicking the SelekTOR icon in the system tray.

Autostart SelekTOR
SelekTOR will autostart at login.

Check for updates on startup.
Will check if any updates of SelekTOR are available from Dazzleships Dot Net.

Disable Tray Icon.
Disables system tray functionality.

Disable desktop notifications
Turn of all desktop notifications from SelekTOR.

Minimise at startup
Minimise SelekTOR to the taskbar on startup.

Minimise instead of exit on close
Instead of quitting SelekTOR minimise to the taskbar on clicking the main window close control icon.

Hide instead of minimise
Instead of minimising SelekTOR to the taskbar completely hide SelekTOR.

Secure delete Tor caches on exit
Securely wipes the Tor caches by renaming and overwriting with zero’s prior to deletion.

SelekTOR Advanced Preferences Options

Tor Listening Port
The main listening port on which the Tor client will listen for incoming connections, usually from whichever proxy server you are using. Port 9054 is the SelekTOR default.

Tor Bridge Address
If you need to bypass an ISP block then enter a valid TOR bridge address in here.
Use the button “Get Bridges” to find valid TOR bridge addresses.

Safe Socks
When enabled, Tor will reject application connections that use unsafe variants of the socks protocol — ones that only provide an IP address, meaning the application is doing a DNS resolve first. Specifically, these are socks4 and socks5 when not doing remote DNS.

Warn Unsafe
When enabled, Tor will warn whenever a request is received that only contains an IP address instead of a hostname. Allowing applications to do DNS resolves themselves is usually a bad idea and can leak your location to attackers.

Test Socks
When enabled, Tor will make a notice-level log entry for each connection to the Socks port indicating whether the request used a safe socks protocol or an unsafe one (see above entry on SafeSocks). This helps to determine whether an application using Tor is possibly leaking DNS requests.

Logging Level
Set the Tor client logging level, all output is to StdOut console to avoid disk writes.

Safe Logging
When enabled, Tor will scrub potentially sensitive strings from log messages (e.g. addresses) by replacing them with the string [scrubbed]. This way logs can still be useful, but they don’t leave behind personally identifying information about what sites a user might have visited.

Avoid Disk Writes
When enabled, Tor will try to write to disk less frequently than we would otherwise. This is useful when running on flash memory or other media that support only a limited number of writes.

Startup Arguments
This will pass any user specified startup arguments to the Tor client, see Tor Manual for a list of valid command line arguments.

Default HTTP Proxy
You can specify a downstream proxy server here, anything not routed through TOR will be sent to the proxy server. Leaving it blank will mean anything not routed through TOR will go directly to the net, this is the default.

TOR Client Monitor

Startup Arguments
This displays all the arguments that are passed at startup to the Tor client.

StdOut Monitor
This displays the output from the Tor clients Stdout logging stream in realtime.

SelekTOR Pattern Editing

Proxy Pattern Editor
The pattern editor allows you to modify, add, delete or disable URL patterns used to redirect specific URL’s via the Tor socks proxy. Only use this if you know what you are doing as any errors made here can cause proxying to fail completely.

Quick Add Pattern
Quick add pattern allows you to quickly add a new pattern for the currently active country. An example is given below:

Description: Newzbin
Pattern: *newzbin.com*

Import Patterns
Pattern files are stored in a ZIP file. This zip file can be directly imported into SelekTOR using this action.

Export Patterns
This allows you to export all your user created pattern files as a SelekTOR compatible zipped import file.

Additional Information

This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com.