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Free Proxies and Anonymous Internet Surfing

21 March 2007 / Alec Kinnear / 22 Comments

Great guidance on how to anonymise your surfing via proxies:

Hiding Your IP Address, Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO.

The danger is that unless you do it just right you risk more than you gain. Specifically that the proxy holder can grab all your unencrypted passwords (email, site logins).

Here are some of the dangers:

‘Honey Pots’ or ‘Honey Proxies’

Everything that is done on or through the open proxy server can be logged and traced. A honey pot is an open proxy server intentionally deployed by security professionals to lure hackers and track their every move. A honey pot can also be installed by a hacker. A hacker can put a proxy server up on his, or a victim’s computer and wait for a scanner to find it. Sending spam e-mail trough a honey pot proxy exposes the sender’s activity. When a spammer uses the proxy to send bulk email, it is possible to collect the content of the spam and report the spammer to his ISP.

Planetlab, CoDeeN Network Proxy

The CoDeeN proxies are big, fast and cached proxy servers cluster based on PlanetLab global research network which was founded in 2002 in Princeton, Berkley and now consists of more than 700 nodes located in many educational and research institutions in the world opened for public use. These proxies are often placed in many “anonymous proxy lists” such as “high anonymous” and “elite”, HOWEVER everything you do online is thoroughly tracked. As a rule these proxies are configured on 3124,3127,3128,8888 TCP ports. Some limitations for these proxies usage also exist, for example HTTP POST method is disabled.

Security Risks

When you use an open proxy server, your computer is making a direct connection to another computer. You do not know who is in control of the remote computer. If you are using proxy servers from open proxy lists, you could be trusting your email messages, passwords or other sensitive information to a person running the server. Someone can be watching the unencrypted information you are transferring over the network.

What are proxies good for?

If you need to feign that you are in one country rather than an another to use a music store or a website for example. Or if you need to download some materials available only in one place. In this case, an anonymous proxy is fantastic. Or if you need to check Google AdWords listings from outside the country where your ad is running.

Don’t try visiting the proxies on rosinstrument.com. While the information is good, thee proxy list there leads you to a nightmare network of browser hijacking exploits.

The only good list of proxies I could find for free is at proxy.org. Fortunately it’s a very good one. I managed to find six or seven working proxies out of ten.

That’s a great batting average.

If anybody has a robust Toronto based proxy I could use, I am still looking.

I would like the Toronto proxy to work with both Google and Yahoo search.

Alec Kinnear

Alec Kinnear

Alec has been helping businesses succeed online since 2000. Alec is an SEM expert with a background in advertising, as a former Head of Television for Grey Moscow and Senior Television Producer for Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi Russia.

Categories: Internet Marketing, SEO

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Comments

  1. carlos martinez 21 May 2007 at 9:55 am

    i need to get on to myspace but its blocked at school send me some proxies

    Reply
  2. O_o 9 October 2007 at 5:47 pm

    are there any proxies that download java applets?

    Reply
  3. Avatar photoalec 10 October 2007 at 2:54 am

    Not off hand. It might be tough to find one that will let a java applet through, especially a public one. I imagine there are security issues.

    Reply
  4. bimbo 14 October 2007 at 9:18 pm

    what is a few proxies for myspace coz i want to get on at skool??

    Reply
  5. Adam 16 October 2007 at 11:34 am

    hey i need to get threw the school blocks can some one pleas send me something to get around these things carbon6969@hotmail.com

    Reply
  6. Grace 18 October 2007 at 9:20 am

    yo i wanna check my myspace but i cant at school cuz all the proxies they send me are blocked already it zux.

    Reply
  7. Jaquita 25 October 2007 at 10:46 am

    pls unblock web sites

    Reply
  8. kim 31 October 2007 at 7:40 am

    free web proxies that work are: Hideidentity.info hideip.info bypassmonster.info invisible.info

    Reply
  9. Natasha 24 April 2008 at 6:30 am

    i need some new proxies…they blocked all of the ones i know

    Reply
  10. carly 30 May 2008 at 7:09 am

    hey help i really need myspace proxies help me they are all blocked at school or they wont let us log in…email me carly.hartle@yahoo.com

    Reply
  11. Joe 5 August 2008 at 4:26 pm

    Im at school at i need to get into bebo send me some proxies

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  12. Avatar photoalec 6 August 2008 at 7:25 am

    Joe, if you’re at school, you should be:

    • in class
    • reading a book/studying
    • hanging out with your friends (live)

    Bebo’s not theplace to be in the middle of the day.

    Reply
  13. marshie 22 October 2008 at 10:10 pm

    please send me some proxies my school has blocked everything its gay please

    Reply
  14. stella 26 October 2008 at 5:32 pm

    please can someone help me with a proxy that opens aupair-world.net ? I am in search of a nanny and any profile I post does not go through. Thanks, Stella.

    Reply
  15. Avatar photoalec 29 October 2008 at 4:07 am

    Hello Stella and Marshie,

    I can’t publish a proxy because as soon as I do the proxy will either:

    • be disabled
    • be swamped with requests and very slow

    You can:

    1. be disabled
    2. be swamped with requests and very slow
    3. build your own proxies

    I did number three. But I can’t publish my proxies for the reasons outlined above.

    Good luck!

    Reply
  16. robert 6 November 2008 at 5:03 pm

    aye people, i need sum proxies to get on to sum websites like youtube, myspace, yahoo mail etc. you guys know what i mean. well hit me up wit sum good proxies… thanx

    Reply
  17. HJ 18 December 2008 at 9:40 am

    can somebody send me some proxies please

    Reply
  18. Derek Harvey 23 March 2009 at 6:50 am

    can you please send me a proxie for facebook, greatly appreciated thank you.

    Reply
  19. Aaron Eurit 27 March 2009 at 10:46 am

    Can you send me a proxy list

    Reply
  20. john 28 July 2010 at 10:36 am

    i need a brand new proxy that is not blocked bay any means

    Reply
  21. Fale 7 October 2016 at 12:30 am

    Please I need some unlock proxy because our IT blocked ours

    Reply
  22. Hassie Aguirre 10 April 2017 at 6:07 pm

    The Michigan market is limited but it isn’t too hard to find a few colo/dedicated providers, even in the offers here or the ‘Hosted By’ on this site (hint hint).I’m a little confused on what you’re trying to accomplish. Why do you need a proxy for an adwords account? Are you trying to see if they are targeting effectively?

    Reply

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