JoLLyRoGer
Diamond Member
Two more days before the rumored "Hack Attack"..... Is your system prepared??
In my experiences in the military there are two things they teach you in survival training when entering a combat situation. Camo and Cover. I'm not trying to liken these rumors to a War if you will, but for general protection these principals still hold true for your computer in the e-world. So how well can you "Camo and Cover your machine". Cover, as in taking cover is pretty simple. A good firewall and antivirus program should provide ample cover for your machine. But what about Camo? Camo, as in appearing invisible might seem a little trickier. One of the best ways I've found to appear invisible (as best as is possible) is through proxy servers. This is why I wanted to share a little bit about one of the best freeware programs that I have ever run across. It's called the Proxomitron. For those of you that might already be running this program, I don't need to explain the benefits of using it. This is more for the benefit of those who have never heard of it. First of all, the Proxomitron not only allows you to use public proxy servers but it also has several powerful web-filters that help protect your identity as well as enhance your experience on the internet. Filters include disabling in and out going cookies, blocking java script, pop up windows, ad banners, foreign-type text, java cookies, and hundreds of others. Imagine looking at the AnandTech home page without all the banner ads down both sides of the page... You can even write your own filters if you know how. But by far the Proxomitron?s best feature is the anonymous use of public proxy servers. Once you install this program all you have to do to get it running is set your computer's proxy settings to "localhost" port:8080. The Proxomitron will then act like a server. To route through a remote public proxy all you have to do is find out the i.p. address of the server and plug it in. Proxomitron does the rest. Finding the i.p.'s is easy. Just download a program such as "ProxyHunter 2.0" and have it compile the list of i.p.'s for you. The cool thing here is that you can enter several different i.p.'s of known good servers and Proxomitron stores them. What does this mean? Proxomitron allows you to not only mask your i.p. through proxy's but you can also change servers "on the fly" by simply selecting a different i.p. address from the drop down box. Thus your i.p., as viewed from the distant end, has changed. Whatever operations you were performing at the time will continue on seamlessly. I've tested this when downloading and uploading files. IMO this feature along with the seemingly endless variety of filters makes it the best and easiest way I've found to remain anonymous on the internet.
If you're interested in this program here is the URL where you can grab it: http://proxomitron.cjb.net
Good Luck
JR..😉
In my experiences in the military there are two things they teach you in survival training when entering a combat situation. Camo and Cover. I'm not trying to liken these rumors to a War if you will, but for general protection these principals still hold true for your computer in the e-world. So how well can you "Camo and Cover your machine". Cover, as in taking cover is pretty simple. A good firewall and antivirus program should provide ample cover for your machine. But what about Camo? Camo, as in appearing invisible might seem a little trickier. One of the best ways I've found to appear invisible (as best as is possible) is through proxy servers. This is why I wanted to share a little bit about one of the best freeware programs that I have ever run across. It's called the Proxomitron. For those of you that might already be running this program, I don't need to explain the benefits of using it. This is more for the benefit of those who have never heard of it. First of all, the Proxomitron not only allows you to use public proxy servers but it also has several powerful web-filters that help protect your identity as well as enhance your experience on the internet. Filters include disabling in and out going cookies, blocking java script, pop up windows, ad banners, foreign-type text, java cookies, and hundreds of others. Imagine looking at the AnandTech home page without all the banner ads down both sides of the page... You can even write your own filters if you know how. But by far the Proxomitron?s best feature is the anonymous use of public proxy servers. Once you install this program all you have to do to get it running is set your computer's proxy settings to "localhost" port:8080. The Proxomitron will then act like a server. To route through a remote public proxy all you have to do is find out the i.p. address of the server and plug it in. Proxomitron does the rest. Finding the i.p.'s is easy. Just download a program such as "ProxyHunter 2.0" and have it compile the list of i.p.'s for you. The cool thing here is that you can enter several different i.p.'s of known good servers and Proxomitron stores them. What does this mean? Proxomitron allows you to not only mask your i.p. through proxy's but you can also change servers "on the fly" by simply selecting a different i.p. address from the drop down box. Thus your i.p., as viewed from the distant end, has changed. Whatever operations you were performing at the time will continue on seamlessly. I've tested this when downloading and uploading files. IMO this feature along with the seemingly endless variety of filters makes it the best and easiest way I've found to remain anonymous on the internet.
If you're interested in this program here is the URL where you can grab it: http://proxomitron.cjb.net
Good Luck
JR..😉
