Here is a proxy network hosted on a server located in Pune, India. Even though all proxies have the same IP address (66.96.221.101) they are useful for those who want to unblock MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and need an Indian location.
The Internet is an easy place to shop, pay your bills, manage your bank accounts, etc. With these also comes the risk of transmitting personal information over the net. You can and you should protect yourself from any threats. Here are 7 free tools to help you browse anonymously and maintain your privacy:
Tor: Tor improves your security and your privacy through a network of virtual tunnels. It allows anonymous browsing, emailing, file sharing, IMs, and IRC chat.
XeroBank Browser: xB Browser is a free and open-source anonymous web browser. It is a special version of Firefox that has Tor anonymization coding. Also xB Browser can run directly from a USB drive.
OperaTor: a bundle that combines Opera browser, Tor and Privoxy and can be used on portable devices.
Anonymous Friend: Internet Explorer Toolbar that helps you post on forums in complete anonymity.
Incognito: Incognito is an open source project based on Gentoo Linux, assisting you to securely and anonymously use the Internet almost anywhere you go, e.g. your home, work, university, favourite Internet café or local library.
JonDo: This program anonymize any surfing you do by using proxy servers, and can keep your internet wanderings secret from just about anyone.
Guardster: Guardster is a webproxy is free of charge and no fees are charged for its use. Guardster does not collect any personal information from its users.
Do you know other FREE tools that help you browse anonymously? Let us know by posting a comment!
Recently I found a very useful Firefox add-on that is able to change your IP address easily. The add-on is called PhProxy InBasic 3.0.3F and it’s produced by InBasic.
The functioning principle is amazingly simple: the add-on re-directs your traffic through existing web proxies (not proxies, but web proxies), acting as a protective screener between you and the internet (as the authors say). The server downloads the page into its memory, and then displays it to the user. The result is that only the server’s IP will be logged, and not the user’s.
Here are the steps you need to perform to start using PhProxy:
Install PhProxy add-on from here. Just press Add to Firefox and follow the instructions
After the installation, you’ll see a small icon in the bottom-right corner of the Firefox window.
With this video I start a series of small videos to show how you can hide your IP address using different softwares. The first video shows how to change/hide your IP with IP Hider. The browser used is Internet Explorer. This is important because for Firefox some more settings have to be done. I’ll show that in a future video.
Due to the increased traffic (about 10k unique visitors during July) I had to change the hosting of this blog. The change was not painless and the site was offline for more than 2 days.
Now we are back online and we’ll continue helping you hiding your IP address.
I just found a video that says it shows how to hide your IP address in mIRC.
Here are the steps described in the video:
1. Go to Options
2. In the Options window, go to Connect -> Options
3. Click on Perfom button
4. In the box, type in: //mode $me +x
5. In the same window, check Enable perfom on connect
6. Click Ok and you are done.
This is called hostmasking. Is this really working?
Here is an interesting question I have received yesterday on the Ask Us page:
Q: I want to surf anonymously from my home computer. I live in The Netherlands, so do not have a government firewall to contend with. I just do not want my ISP or the likes of Google to see which sites I visit.
I have Comodo firewall installed.
Can I use UltraSurf (from ultrareach.com), or will it influence my firewall protection against malware negatively?
A: Is hiding my IP address affecting the firewall protection? The answer is simple: NO.
UtraSurf, as other hide ip products, offers proxies that act as intermediate between you and the site you visit. The firewall is not bypassed in any way by using such software. So you can continue using UltraSurf without worrying about malware.
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.
In a previous post, I have shown How to find the IP address of the email sender in Yahoo! Mail. Now, let’s see how to find the email sender if you are using Microsoft Outlook. This is useful if someone is flooding your inbox with junk mail or harassing you via email.
Important! You will not be able to find the real IP address if the sender uses an anonymous proxy server.
Here is what you have to do to get the IP address of an email sender in Microsoft Outlook:
1. Start Microsoft Outlook
2. Open a message (Double click on message header in order to open it in a window)
3. On the View menu, click Options
4. Under the Delivery options in the Internet Headers box you can see the mail header information.
In order to determine the IP address of the sender, you have to take a look to the Received: Headers. These Headers Received Headers have the following format: Read the rest of this entry »