Friday, July 28, 2006

How to.....

How to Surf the Web Anonymously With Proxies
One of the easiest ways to hide your computer, and thus hide you, while on the web is to use proxies. Proxies act as a computer between you and the rest of the web. When you are surfing the web through a proxy, any web servers you connect to, actually think you are connecting from the proxy computer.

You can, for instance, connect to the web through a proxy in Japan even though you are in the United States. Any web server you connect to will think you are connecting from Japan, and would direct you to a Japanese version of their web page (if a Japanese version were available.)

Steps
Setting up a proxy for Microsoft Internet Explorer
Find a proxy host.
Search Google for "Proxy list" to find hundreds of websites that list public proxies.
Alternatively, go straight to websites like Public Proxy Servers. When looking at the list of proxies, find one labeled "anonymous".
Open Internet Explorer, and click on Tools>Internet Options.
Click on the "Connections" tab, and then the "Lan Settings" button.
Locate "Proxy Servers", then click the box for "Use a proxy server for your lan".
Copy the IP address (the string of numbers that looks like 123.45.678.90) from the proxy list you found, and paste it into the "Address:" box.
Copy the port number from the proxy list, and paste that into the "Port:" box.
Click "OK", and then click "OK" again

4 comments:

Scott said...

Eric, are you surfing porn on the sly?

Sickboy said...

negative, I just thought this was interesting.

Martin said...
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Martin said...

Proxies are cool but your ISP can still see if you're doing naughty or questionable things like port scanning someone elses network. If you are so inclined to do that sort of thing. Which I'm not. honest. TimeWarner/AOL will disable your account if they catch you doing that. But I don't use AOL cuz I think they suck.