While there are many posters who have worse spelling than you, you seem to have made a particularly important spelling error here, and so you should consider correcting it.
You type 'squad' when I think you mean 'squid'; doing this in the title means that it is probably mostly people who have knwledge about the program 'squad' who will read further (I know of no such program, and nor does my package manager, but it does know of a debugging program known as 'crimesquad' and it is just possible the 'squad' is an accepted abbreviated form for 'crimesquad').
This, of course, means that few people read your post and that reduces your chances of getting help.
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I've made a mistake and copied squid.conf.default to squid.conf (since I assumed these were identical) and now NOTHING works!
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...well, all you have to do is to undo the changes...
Did you copy the old squid.conf before doing anything? Then the solution is simple.
Assuming that you made the mistake of not doing this, had you made manual modifications to the squid.conf and can you remember well enough to redo those mods?
If the issue is that, on install, mandrive does 'helpful' stuff and automagically sets up your squid.conf (to a limited extent, anyway) pragmatically the easiest way forward may be to uninstall and re-install. making sure this time to keep safety copies of things that you have changed.
Now, back to draining the swamp...
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However squad seems to do a very annoying thing. When some webpages are updated, squad doesn't catch this and returns old cached data to me. Extremely annoying!
How can I get rid of this problem? Change the config file? Tried to read but couldn't see any useful - a cache that is not updating sounds more like an error than a feature to me... Can I turn squid off? Don't really need a cache in the middle honestly...
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Firstly, get rid of the cache, if you don't need it. You may find out that this isn't a squid problem after all but a browser/coding problem. there are 'no cache' directives that can be used in html that can be used to stop pages from being cached. primarily this should be used where 'database driven' pages are not expected to be the same every time that they are accessed. If the no cache tag isn't used (sloppy coding) or the browser does not respect it, then you will see this problem.
A 'work-around' is to use shift-refresh or control-refresh (depending on browser) to force a refresh.
A decade or so ago, squid used to need some help to cope with this, but these days seems better so I am unclear whther squid is to blame in this case.
