My family shares a single computer and I have heard that you can actually buy and install software that will prevent your computer from exposing your ip address to the websites you go to. What is the good software that would do just that? and how would I be able to verify that it works? I am about to purschase a new computer and would like that feature

LOL! This is 2008, your mailman knows everything about you.

paranoid?

you dont need a computer, you need a medicine prescription.

why don't you this question to the people you "heard" about this software from?

Cramer Wrote:
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> My family shares a single computer and I have
> heard that you can actually buy and install
> software that will prevent your computer from
> exposing your ip address to the websites you go
> to. What is the good software that would do just
> that? and how would I be able to verify that it
> works? I am about to purschase a new computer and
> would like that feature

I've tried installing Anonymizer. It sucks. It slows your computer down so much that it is not even worth using. If you quit going to kiddy porn sites and cruising for 14-year-olds in chat rooms, you should be fine without it.

if you are willing to pay, do all your web surfing through a web proxy server. A cursory search of google yields several proxy services. That's all anonymizers are anyway.

Subscribing to a proxy service can have other advantages that are peripheral to the effects an anonymized ip has, and a lot of times these services will be able to let you skip around different subnets.

A. I am not paranoid. B Just because I dont want my cookies be flooded with junk that makes me a pedophile? I was expecting a smartass comments but this is down right disturbing.

dude

your are paranoid.

noone gives a fuck where you are going on the internet.

noone is gonna track you down, unless you do something illegal.


damn, its fucking simple shit.

Cramer Wrote:
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> A. I am not paranoid.

and yet you are the only one that is concerned about this. unless you are on some really shady sites or you actually are a pedophile, you dont have a reason to be concerned.


> B Just because I dont want
> my cookies be flooded with junk that makes me a
> pedophile?

a proxy will not help stop you the cookies as well as annoying ads. there is an easy way to stop them though a hosts file. this is a zip file containing a windows installer for the hosts file: http://hostsfile.mine.nu/Hosts.setup.zip it also comes in all formats: http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads

additionally, you can set firefox to only accept cookies that you approve (a whitelist) which i do because i hate cookies that are filled random crap.

if you arent using firefox, you are an idiot anyway because using IE is something to be concerned about. seriously, exploits galore exist for IE.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

LMFAO, why would someone download anything onto their computer that is posted on here, especially anything but GRavis. Its probably his nude pictures from the early childhood. as soon as you download them he is going to call the cops

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Attachments:

You can't hide, so don't bother trying. Even your email gets read.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304052.html?hpid=sec-tech

tomahawk Wrote:
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> You can't hide, so don't bother trying. Even your
> email gets read.


i would hope so, i mean, otherwise what's the point of writing the email?


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Gravis Wrote:
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>
> a proxy will not help stop you the cookies as well
> as annoying ads. there is an easy way to stop
> them though a hosts file. this is a zip file
> containing a windows installer for the hosts file:
> http://hostsfile.mine.nu/Hosts.setup.zip it also
> comes in all formats:
> http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads

Some proxies will block cookies, javascript, etc.

>
> if you arent using firefox, you are an idiot
> anyway because using IE is something to be
> concerned about. seriously, exploits galore exist
> for IE.

If you think Firefox is any safer, you're just plain naive. IE is attacked more because they have greater coverage (like Windows v/s mac or *nix). Not necessarily that they're less secure, just more popular and therefore draw more attention.

Iggy

Iggy Wrote:
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> IE is attacked more because [...]

doesnt that intrinsically make it a larger security risk?


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Wonder if the OP knows Chris Hansen...