Archive for May, 2009
Can I use browser for Anonymous Surfing
23May 2009
If you want to surf anonymously and shield your ip address you don’t have to pay a service. With a bit
of hackery, you can use Internet Explorer, or any other browser. To do it,
you use an anonymous proxy server to sit between you and the web sites
you visit.
To use an anonymous proxy server in concert with your browser, first find
an anonymous proxy server. Hundreds of free, public proxy servers are
available, but many frequently go offline or are very slow. To find the best
one, go to http://www.atomintersoft.com/products/alive-proxy/proxy-list. The
web site lists information about each server, including its uptime percentage
and the last time the server was checked to see if it was online.
Find the server with the highest percentage of uptime. Write down the
server’s IP address and the port it uses. For example, in the listing 24.236.
148.15:80, the IP address is 24.236.148.15, and the port number is 80.
In Internet Explorer, select Tools ➝ Internet Options, click the Connections
tab, and click the LAN Settings button. Check the “Use a proxy server for
your LAN” box. In the Address field, type in the IP address of the proxy
server. In the Port field, type in its port number.
How to Surf The Web Anonymously ?
9May 2009
Whenever you surf the Web, you leave yourself open to being snooped upon
by web sites. They can track your online travels, know what operating system and browser you’re running, find out your machine name, peer into
your clipboard, uncover the last sites you’ve visited, examine your history
list, delve into your cache, examine your IP address and use that to learn
basic information about you such as your geographic location, and more. To
a great extent, your Internet life is an open book when you visit.
Don’t believe me? Head to http://www.anonymizer.com/privacytest/. This
page, run by the Anonymizer.com web service, tells you your IP address
and machine name. And that’s just a start. Click the links such as Exposed
Clipboard and Geographical Location. You’ll see just a small sampling of</br></br>
what web sites can learn about you.There are two primary ways to use anonymous proxy servers. You can run client software on your PC, which does the work of contacting the server for you, or you can visit a web site, which does the work of contacting the server.
on hide my IP address, the contents of my clipboard, my browser information,and my geographic location. It’s close enough; I live in Cambridge rather than Boston, and we generally require that people turn over their passports at the border.
Much of the reason why web sites can find out this information about you is
due to the trusting nature of the Internet’s infrastructure and is inherent in
the open client/server relationship between your web browser and the servers
on the sites you visit. But a lot of it also has to do with the ability to
match up information from your PC to information in publicly available
databases—for example, databases that have information about IP
addresses.
The best way to make sure web sites can’t gather personal information
about you and your computer is to surf anonymously; use an anonymous
proxy server to change your ip address to sit between you and the web sites you visit. When you use an anonymous proxy server can mask ip address , your browser doesn’t contact a web sitedirectly. Instead, it tells a proxy server which web site you want to visit. The proxy server then contacts the web site, and when you get the web site’s page you don’t get it directly from the site. Instead, it’s delivered to you by the proxy server. In that way, your browser never directly contacts the web server whose site you want to view. The web site sees the IP address of the proxy server, not your PC’s IP address so you are now hiding your pc and windows ip address . It can’t read your cookies, see your history list, or examine your clipboard and cache because your PC is never in direct contact with it. You’re able to surf anonymously, without a trace.