How to use proxies and surf safe
From: Dave (dave4550_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/14/03
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Date: 14 May 2003 03:22:34 -0700
First of all, you need to connect through a proxy.
Just like http://www.megaproxy.com and http://www.anonymizer.com there
are thousands of free proxies which allow you connect anonymously and
securely to the website of your choosing.
Go to http://proxysite.com/ and choose a proxy computer in the country
of your choice. There are anonymous proxies, and transparent proxies,
and you want to choose an anonymous proxy that totally masks your IP
from the website (i.e. computer) which you connect to.
Once you've chosen your proxy, open Internet Explorer 5.5 and go to
Tools/Internet Options/Connections
If you have cable modem or broadband connection click on "LAN
Settings," check "Use a proxy server" and enter the proxy IP number,
and port in the boxes.
If you're on a dialup connection go to Tools/Internet
Options/Connections
In the white "Dial-up settings" box, highlight the connection you use.
Click on "Settings." Check "Use a proxy server" and enter the proxy
IP number, and port in the boxes.
Click "Okay."
Once you have your proxy, go to http://www.all-nettools.com/pr.htm to
check if you are really anonymous.
Connecting to a proxy server is just like connecting to a website.
All the internet is, is computers, and a webserver which serves
websites, is just another computer. When you connect to the website
Yahoo for example, you are immediately proxied through several other
computers which handle Yahoo's web traffic. The "web address" is just
a mask for a computer's IP number. For instance
http://www.all-nettools.com is just a domain name for the computer at
IP address http://216.92.207.177. Connect to http://216.92.207.177
and you will see that it is exactly the same website.
To clear your computer of your past surfing content,
Go to Tools/Internet Options/General/
Clear History
Delete Files
Delete Files-Delete Offline Content
Then go to the tab "Content" AutoComplete - Clear Forms, Clear
Passwords.
To make sure the websites aren't tracking you, delete all your cookies
Go to Windows Explorer
C:/Windows/Temporary Internet Files/
Edit/"Select All" or Cntrl+A
Delete
C:/Windows/Cookies
Delete
C:/Windows/Temp/Cookies
Delete
To turn off your cookies so that you don't have to delete them as
often, in Internet Explorer 5.5 go to Tools/Internet Options/Security
"Custom Level," scroll down until you see "Allow cookies that are
stored on your computer," select Disable, and click Okay.
If anyone knows anything else to clear, please let me know. Remember,
your Internet Service Provider (ISP) could still be watching you, but
if you connect through a proxy they would have packet sniff to see
what you're looking at. You could get around this with an encrypted
proxy such as http://www.megaproxy.com, which encrypts your packets so
long as whoever is trying to monitor you does not have the
de-encryption keys. Also remember that if you post something through
a proxy you could still be traced if the proxy computer you connect
through keeps logs.
In my opinion, the internet should be 100% anonymous in any case. No
one has any authority to look at any of your web communications
without a court order, and countries have no authority to regulate
communications between people, on the net or otherwise.
Also note that if you're using a proxy, a downloaded Yahoo program
such as chat or games, or movies, automatically opens a new program
which may NOT connect through the proxy, and could reveal your real
IP.
For more information on the internet and to test the safety of your
computer, go to http://www.grc.com or http://www.privacy.net.
It's also a good idea to have a good firewall. Zone Alarm is one of
the best, you can download for free at
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
It's also a good idea to change your network connections so that your
TCP/IP protocol is not bound to the Client for Microsoft Networks.
You can learn how to do this at http://www.grc.com. See
http://grc.com/su-bondage.htm. This makes it harder for people to
hack in over NetBios port 139 (yet if you have a good firewall, they
won't be able to in any case).
For more information on your internet connection, the winipcfg and
netstat commands are useful. These can be accessed from the START/Run
box or from DOS if you're on a Win 98 or older operating system.
Also, it is possible to circumvent any proxy you are FORCED to connect
through(for instance maybe if you live in China or the Middle East),
and it is possible to connect through two proxies, making you even
more anonymous (though the real test of anonymity is whether the proxy
keeps logs or not).
To circumvent a FORCED proxy, or connect through two at one time,
download HTTPort at http://www.htthost.com/. The program is only
760MB, small enough to email as an attachment. Details on how to use
it are here: http://mikhed.narod.ru/en/programs/httport.htm.
Basically in the proxy server box of your browser (Internet Explorer,
etc.) you point your browser to what is known as the localhost,
127.0.0.1 on port 3128, then in HTTPort, you put the FORCED or FIRST
proxy as the proxy you need to bypass, (if it's a forced proxy it will
usually connect on port 80) and in the "Port Mapping" section of
HTTPort, the local port is 3128, while the subsequent remote port and
remote host are your second proxy and its respective port.
So HTTPort first goes on, circumvents, and connects you to the forced
proxy which you normally would automatically connect to. Then it goes
through your browser, which connects to the local host, 127.0.0.1 on
port 3128, then back to HTTPort which connects to the second proxy and
its respective port, which allows you to surf freely.
The only things is, can the forced proxy detect HTTPort?? Because it
looks to me as if HTTPort is the PROGRAM which connects you to the forced
proxy (however it would most likely be very easy to spoof HTTPort and
make it look exactly the same as Internet Explorer).
HTTPort will make you connect through one proxy, and then make that
proxy connect through a second proxy. Just as if you connected
through one proxy, and then went to http://www.anonymizer.com. I
guess that by using HTTPort and then going to a proxy webpage you
could connect through three or more proxies. If you're FORCED to
connect through a proxy, HTTPort makes your forced proxy connect to a
second proxy which bypasses the censoring.
Also, remember your browser is just a software program running on your
computer. Given this, it could be quite possible to manufacture
another software program like HTTPort which allows you to connect
through 3 or 4 or 10, or 100 or more proxies if you chose to. It
could be made to work in with your browser. Though conceivably you
could still be traced if all the proxies kept logs, and if you have
one proxy which doesn't keep logs, you would only need that one proxy.
Normally when you connect through your browser, you go through the
proxy or first computer, and then your browser sends a command to
connect to the website or second computer, so proxy chaining is just
the same, and quite conceivable.
Also, it may be possible to turn your home computer into a proxy for
other people to use, though I'm currently unsure of how to do this.
It may be possible with a program called "Wingate" yet if you're not
careful it may at the same time open your computer up to hackers.
However I've heard that Linux users are able to proxy through each
other's computers.
Also, as far as encryption goes, I was thinking about this, and I
guess if you connect to an encrypted WEB site, only the website can
see the information which you are sending to it. If you first connect
to a non-encrypted proxy, and then to an encrypted website, your ISP
could still see which site you connect to IF they packet read, because
the first "GET" command would not be encrypted. But of course, your
ISP wouldn't be able to see the encrypted information, (unless they
have de-encryption keys) and the connection would be encrypted from
the website to your own computer, even over the proxy. So the proxy
doesn't really help anything. Yet if you connect to an encrypted
PROXY such as http://www.megaproxy.com, your ISP can't see anything
(except that you're connecting to megaproxy, BUT, any information sent
between the proxy and another website is not encrypted. So for
instance if you write a note to a message board while using megaproxy,
it COULD concievably be intercepted by anyone on any router which the
packet travels over from the PROXY to the website (though not from
your computer to the proxy), since you do not have a secure connection
with the website and your connection is only encrypted between your
computer and the proxy).
Really, who are you evading? A website, or your ISP. So encrypt to
evade your ISP, and proxy to evade a website. And connecting to an
encrypted website ensures your information is not intercepted by
anyone on any of the routers which your information travels over to
reach the other computer.
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