Anonymous Proxy

Have you heard the words anonymous proxy, proxy server or proxy site?
Many people have heard of these but haven't got a clue what they are or mean.

Here is a very simple overview of an Anonymous Proxy:

Every time you visit a website, fill in an online form or download some music, you are leaving footprints. These footprints are a cyber trail of where you have come from and what you did along the way.

You have to admit, that's pretty freaky stuff, every website you have visited can be tracked back to YOU!

This is why there are now Anonymous Proxys, but what does an anonymous proxy do?

An anonymous proxy is a tunnel (just for simplicity) this is like a normal tunnel, it can't be seen from above the ground.

What happens is this: you download a piece of software onto your computer, once you run the software it finds your IP (internet protocol) address, this is your computers address, it then goes out into the internet and finds servers which can be used. Once the servers have been found the software makes a note of all of there addresses and stores them.

Here is the fun part, with the software running in the background, every time you log onto the internet and start browsing the software give your computer an address in China, Russia, Australia or anywhere else which is far away from where you actually are.