How to stay anonymous online !

You may be knowing that you leave your footprints everywhere you go online. Your every activity is recorded in the logs of the servers you visit and correlated to your IP address, which gives the admins everything they need in order to find your location. Check this link for a live example:
http://whatismyipaddress.com/
No one likes to be traced. This tutorial will show you how to securely hide your IP address using proxy online.

What are Proxies? You can’t change your IP address and expect to still be able to receive communication from the server you’re contacting. Why’s ? Because the server will just send its response to the computer it thinks sent the packet, which means you would not receive any response but the computer with the address you spoofed would receive information it didn’t ask for. but it’s not very helpful to us when we want to be able to receive information from a server without giving
away our true identity. This is where proxies come in. A proxy is a sort of middle man When you use a proxy, all your browser’s traffic is sent not to the target server, but to the proxy server, which then relays your traffic to the target. The target in turn responds to the proxy server, which relays the traffic back to you.

What is TOR?

TOR is in effect a very well organized chain proxy . It routs your traffic through different paths every ten minutes and randomly chooses the proxies you’ll use on each hop to give you very strong anonymity. See here for more details: http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en Whenever you’re doing something sensitive or private online, TOR is your best option. However, there is one downside: depending on the proxies that are incorporated into your proxy chain, it can be very slow. This can usually be resolved by disconnecting from the TOR network and reconnecting. How to Install It On debian-based linux like ubuntu or backtrack, this is a breeze. Simply open up a terminal and
type in: [code]
sudo apt-get install tor
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On windows, first download the tor client here: http://www.torproject.org/easy-
download.html.en and run the installer. Choose full installation if you’re asked. Make sure you have Firefox closed. Configuring Firefox for TOR
There used to be a lot of manual configuration involved with setting up firefox to go through tor (manually changing proxy settings when you wanted to use it), but now there’s a handy firefox plugin called “Tor Button” that lets you toggle back and forth just by a single mouse click. It comes preinstalled with the windows installer. On Linux, you can install it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275
And that’s it! You can now head back over to http://whatismyipaddress.com or
http://cmyip.com and see where the server thinks you’re coming from.