Hiding IP addresses when surfing
 

A few years ago I tinkered with some anonymizer websites when posting to certain forums where I did not trust the admins. I soon gave up as the free services were all too slow or not dependable. I was wondering if anyone has any current experience you can share? Software, proxy servers, anonymizer services?

thanks

I think admuncher http://www.admuncher.com/ has an option for using proxies. And check out http://www.atomintersoft.com/product...xy/proxy-list/ they list lots of active anonymous proxies.

If you use Mozilla Firefox, there's a plugin you can get called Switch Proxy... http://jgillick.nettripper.com/switchproxy/

Bear in mind, though, that the operators of some anonymous proxies sift their traffic for username/passwords. That is how certain information becomes available on the links forum ;-)

If you need to do some quiet surfing, the best thing you can do is pony up the $10 per month an join COTSE.

excuse my ignorance but what's COTSE?

Google is my friend
http://www.cotse.com/

Church of the swimming elephant? :D

http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html is great
java anonymous proxy.
it's fairly good
the main server is in Dresden and does not keep logs.
It is open source and therefore harder to slip in a tracking program into it (was tried once) and uses java so it is multiplatform.

I actually paid for a year worth of anonymizer.com service. I had some problems with them right away that I tried to rectify via their customer service... sorry, it was long enough ago and I was p*ssed off enough that I don't recall the details. All I remember is that I vowed never to give them another dime... I do believe in voting with your dollars...

Another option you have is if you have an old machine and are somewhat tech inclined you can set up a Squid proxy and turn on anonymizing function. It does the following by default:
1. A HTTP request (V1.0) contains a header like an eMail does. MIME Headers are allowed.
2. A proxy is urged to resubmit the whole header to the requested system.
3. This resubmittment can be filtered. There are two methods of selecting or droping header lines.
1. Only header lines known to compromise privacy are filtered:
* Authorization: (Removed due to strong customer requests, password protected pages fail definitly)
* From:
* Referer:
* Server:
* User-Agent:
* WWW-Authenticate:
* Link:
2. Only header lines known to be secure are passed.
* GET
* POST
* HEAD
* Allow:
* Cache-control:
* Content-Encoding:
* Content-Length:
* Content-Type:
* Date:
* Expires:
* Host:
* If-Modified-Since:
* Last-Modified:
* Location:
* Pragma:
* Accept:
* Accept-Charset:
* Accept-Encodinghttp://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/anon/web.en.html
* Accept-Language:
* Content-Language:
* MIME-Version:

Can find a bit more information at http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/anon/web.en.html or http://www.squid-cache.org

Use Complete Anonymous Web Surfing program. It has 3 levels of security.

- Undercover_Man

But how well is that goining to work if you aren't hitting that proxy as a client? You're still accessing the net from the same IP.

tropple...well yes but they won't know that....

nocensor

good site go to section 4.5.1 for a list of proxies