Hide your IP Address with Ghostsurf Pro

Hide your IP Address with anonymous proxy servers

There are two potential sources of information about you when you surf the web: cookies and Internet addresses (or IP Address).

If you block cookies and hide your IP address, it's impossible for a web site owner to know anything personal about you. Ghostsurf will allow you to browse the web through anonymous proxy servers which will hide your IP address.

Hide Your IP Address to Keep your Interent Address Secure

Since this is very important to the way the Internet works, it's impossible to turn Internet addresses off. You have to work around them by sending all your information through a different computer - this is calles a "proxy server".

This other computer will have a different Internet address, of course, so when your information comes out it looks like it's coming from somewhere else. You can do this by finding an anonymous CERN proxy server on the web and configuring your browser to use it, or you can install GhostSurf, which will do this for you automatically, in addition to finding the fastest and most reliable proxy server or "hub" for you.

There is one important note of caution however: since you're sending everything through another computer somewhere else in the world, your Internet connection may slow down. And if that computer gets shut down, your Internet connection will cease to work until you switch to another one. GhostSurf Pro makes switching easy.

Hiding your IP Address with a proxy server makes it impossible for anyone to track what you're doing or what sites you visit (e.g. music download sites..).

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Managing anonymous proxy servers to Hide Your IP Address

Communicating with a Web Site

Anonymous hubs prevent web sites from seeing your Internet (IP) address (i.e. they Hide your IP address) when you send information to them. When you visit a web site, your computer sends a request for information to the web site. Part of that request is your Internet address. Since the recipient web site needs to know where to send the response, it is necessary to include your Internet address with the request.

The web site responds with a "response packet," a similar structure with its address and the requested information. The whole process is pictured below. 

It is necessary to transmit your computer's location so the destination website knows where to send the requested information. Anonymous hubs serve as intermediary entities, stripping your computer's address from the request packet. 

Blocking your Address

Anonymous hubs sit between your computer and the destination website, filtering your address out of request packets so they can't reach the website. Your request packet (with your address and your request) is sent to the anonymous hub. The hub sends your request on, but replaces your address with its own. The website responds normally, sending the requested information to the computer that requested it (in this case, the anonymous hub). The hub then forwards this information back to your computer.

To your computer, the anonymous hub looks just like the website. You send your address and your request, and you get the requested data back with the site's address. But your information doesn't reach the website as it would otherwise. To the website, all your visits look like they originate from the anonymous hub. The anonymous hub is, in some sense, your "agent" on the Internet--it gets everything you request. It's an anonymous hub because it doesn't reveal your identity when it gets information for you. 

What it Really Blocks

The anonymous hub does not modify your request, it only removes your address, to hide your IP address. So the website still knows what you're requesting, it just doesn't know who you are.
Unfortunately, that's not the whole story. Websites can ask for personal information in your request. So even though the anonymous hub blocks your address, your computer may embed personal information in the request. This is the biggest source of privacy violations. Your Internet address is nothing more than the Internet name of your computer. It may contain the name of your ISP (Internet Service Provider), but it doesn't reveal any real personal information.

Although anonymous hubs cannot filter your requests to remove personal information, GhostSurf can.  

Should I Use Anonymous Hubs?

You don't need to use anonymous hubs to protect your privacy online. They provide an extra level of security that protects you from hacker attacks and keeps your ISP and others from monitoring what sites you visit. Whether you feel it is necessary to hide your IP address probably depends on which websites you visit..

In light of recent online privacy violations both by websites and ISP's, you may wish to consider using GhostSurf's anonymous hubs option.

The major benefits of using anonymous hubs are: -

Web sites don't know your address, and therefore cannot attack your computer or identify it over different visits. 

Your ISP doesn't know where you surf; to your ISP it looks like you visit the anonymous hub over and over again. 

The primary drawbacks of using anonymous hubs are: - 

Not as reliable as a direct connection. If your anonymous hub goes down, you'll have to switch to another one. GhostSurf Pro does this automatically, but it can momentarily interrupt your connection. 

May be slower; your traffic has to go through the anonymous hub before reaching the website. This extra jump may add some time to your waiting for pages and images to load. 

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System requirements
- Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP
- Pentium 133MHz or better
- 32 MB RAM
- 16 MB hard disk space
- Internet connection 

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