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Anonymous Web
Surfing: One Way around Spyware
Summary: One way to suppress your identity on the internet is by
doing your web browser through anonymous web browsing internet
sites. These anonymous or proxy server sites can alter your
computer’s IP address so that the information becomes inconsistent
to those trying to spy on your computer.
The problem with web surfing on the internet is that the process
reveals way too much information about you. Advertisers latch on
to this information and begin trying to pitch ads targeted at you.
This scenario happens even when you don’t have malware on your
computer. It is no problem for them to study the IP address of the
traffic arriving from your browser. The IP address will tell a
website what country you are originating in, your browser, browser
history, and type of computer. You can even unknowingly reveal the
name of your computer over the internet and they can get your name
if your computer supports finger and/or identid. Cookies are also
components that can store information about your browsing habits.
So this basically means that when you visit a web site, someone at
the other end can get information about who you are. You have no
clue who is at the other end getting information about you. They
will definitely look at your browsing habits and try to get your
real name too.
There are ways to prevent your identity and browsing habits from
getting exposed to third parties and that is through a method
known as anonymous web surfing. While anonymous web surfing make
no guarantees that your privacy is protected, it does make the
advertisers out there work a little harder to get your
information. Something called the anonymous proxy server is what
is designed to protect your privacy. How it works is you browse
the internet through the proxy server. The proxy server replaces
your IP address with its own and ships the page request to the
server of the target website. The end result is that your
originating IP address is hidden from the end or target website
server.
You can gain access to an anonymous proxy server either by paying
for the service or there are many free proxy servers. A couple
products on the market today are known as Guardster (www.guardster.com)
and ShadowSurf (www.shadowsurf.com). ShadowSurf is basically a
free service whereas Guardster has various combinations of free
and paid web surfing services. The way ShadowSurf works is you go
to their site, type in the URL of the website you wish to go to
and that you want to remain anonymous while you visit. These are
only two of the anonymous browsing sites. There are others that
serve essentially the same purpose. Just go to Google.com and type
in the search phrase “anonymous web browsing” and you can see what
else is available.
There are other methods to achieve anonymous browsing besides the
anonymous browsing sites. You can do use an encrypted connection
although this is much more expensive to set up and is technically
more complex. You will find various encryption solutions and tips
on the internet. You should also delete any cookies after your
browsing sessions as these contain identifying information. And
lastly, you can set your web browser to not run scripts in web
pages such as active content, Javascript, or Java applets. This
last method can cause some problems in a few of the websites you
visit because those scripts might have been there for a very valid
reason and not for the purpose of infecting your computer with
spyware.
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