SETTING PROXI

Your IP address is a very powerful thing that can reveal a lot about you and your computer. It is used to track where traffic is coming from for sites, it can be used in intrusive ways which can harm your computer, and to block you from viewing certain sites. There are many other reasons why IP addresses are so important to people.

First of all, IP address can reveal your exact location (country, city, street, house number/ appartment). To make things worse, your browser reveals other information regarding your online activity. Here is the complete lists of info someone can see about you:

1. Location of where the internet connection is coming from
2. Application Name
3. Application Version
4. User Agent
5. Browser Name
6. Operating System
7. Platform

Here's a small bit of information that is readily available to any site you visit directly:

Your IP Address:	118.96.143.120
Your Country:	Indonesia
Your Browser:	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5

This just begins to list the many things IP addresses reveal about you and your family. Many intruders use these IP addresses to hack into private content on your computer to gain knowledge of credit card numbers, bank accounts, website passwords, and so much more. An intruder gain can access to anywhere on your computer simply by having your IP address, that is why it's important to understand how your being revealed and how you can stop it.

You can purchase programs out there that will block or hide your IP address from the public so that they won't be able to tell what it is. This is a valuable tool in staying protected online, anyone who conducts purchases online should always be worried about their privacy and take the steps needed in order to protect themselves.

About web proxies and anonymous web surfing

A proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) which services the requests of its clients by forwarding requests to other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server.

It is possible to hide your real IP address on the Web by using an anonymous proxy server. A proxy acts as an intermediary, routing network packets between your computer and the Internet. When using a proxy for anonymous web surfing, an IP address of that proxy is relayed instead of your own helping you stay anonymous. And remember: "Privacy is not a crime and anonymity is not morally ambiguous or wrong, they are your right."