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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