Fixing ProxyChains ERROR: ld.so: object ‘libproxychains.so.3’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Nullsec posted on – November 29, 2014 at 7:53 pm regarding ProxyChains giving an error: ERROR: ld.so: object ‘libproxychains.so.3’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Essentially, this might expose you. Following fix was also posted by NullSec, ‘Thank you‘. (I’ve only formatted his comment to make it more user-readable!)

ProxyChains error

Hey mate, I notice on kali 1.09, people seem to have problems with proxychains 3 that ships by default, something is buggy.

proxychains iceweasel (gives errors, may expose you)
ERROR: ld.so: object ‘libproxychains.so.3′ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Fixing ProxyChains error

Step 1: Remove old proxychains

Removed the default proxychains version

apt-get remove proxychains
(or)
sudo apt-get remove proxychains

Download/Git Clone Proxychains v4

Download or use clone ProxyChains v4 git using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng

Now either uncompress (if you’ve downaloaded) or change directory to proxychains-ng folder.

cd proxychains-ng

Configure, Compile and install ProxyChains v4

Use the following commands to configure, compile and install ProxyChains v4. Note that ‘sudo’ is used which would also work if you’re root user.

./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc
sudo make
sudo make install

Next, use install-config which would install a configuration file (i.e. proxychains.conf)

sudo make install-config

Run and confirm

Now run ProxyChains v4 using the following command (we are using IcelWeasel via ProxyChains v4)

proxychains4 iceweasel

Now you should not have ERROR: ld.so: object ‘libproxychains.so.3’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored anymore and would be more secured online.