SurfAnonymous or not?

Several days ago, I have run into SurfAnonymous, another hide ip sofware. I was excited at first but after several minutes of usage I was rather dissapointed. SurfAnonymous is a nice product but it is rather unstable.

Here are some info about this software (as advertised) on the producer’s site:

SurfAnonymous is an internet utilities that hide your IP address, thereby saving you from the vulnerabilities concerned with it.

SurfAnonymous is useful if:

• You need to change your IP address
• You want to browse anonymously on the web
• You are concerned about your Online Privacy ?
• You are blocked by websites ( chat, game servers, messageboard, forum ) ?
• You are looking for FREE Proxy List ?
• You want to hide your OS & Browser Version while browsing?
• You want to run Programs (MSN .etc) behind firewalls ?
• You want to hide your IP while chatting in MIRC, ICQ, MSN, Kazaa…etc ?

You can download the trial version from here. You can purchase a license for $29.95.

Important! The first step after you install the product is to press the Demo button. A video that explain how to use the product will be launched.

Before being able to hide your IP address you have to perform several steps like:

1. Search the net for proxies (unsing Proxy Hunter)
2. Analyze the speed, type, location of the available (Proxy Analyzer)
3. Set up the applications to use proxies even if they do not support it by default (Proxy Capture)
4. Manage your proxies and eliminate bad proxies (Proxy Pool).

Finally, you can start browsing anonymously.

Things I liked

• It can be used for applications like MIRC, ICQ, MSN, Kazaa
• You can easily choose the application you what to anonymize. Nice PICK feature.
• Useful proxy hunter and analyser
• It includes a demo video that explains how to use the product (Demo)

Things I didn’t like

• It freezed several times
• A little bit to complicated for the average user
• During the trial, the session is limited to 10 minutes and the Save option is disabled.

To sum up, even SurfAnonymous has some nice features I would wait for the next versions to be released. It is not very reliable and stable.

Have you used SurfAnonymous? What do you think about the product? Let me know! Post a comment!