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VIP Anonymizer

System: Windows 98, ME, XP, 2003

Application: Anonymizer

License: Commercial

Homepage: www.vipdefense.com

 

VIP Anonymity prevents everyone from knowing your IP address. It redirects your traffic through the chain of anonymous proxy servers. They do not save or transfer information about your IP address and thus effectively hide information about you and your surfing interests. As long as you browse without VIP Anonymity you're still at risk! Protect your online shopping and browsing habits today!




Quick Start: A proxy server that removes identifying information from the client's requests for the purpose of anonymity is called an anonymizing proxy server or Anonymizer. Browsing anonymously is growing need of the hour due to various reasons to protect from online identity track, shopping habits track and many more. Though we need to surf anonymously for the various reasons cited, we have to do it very safely to protect our identity misuse and lot more. VIP Anonymizer helps us in getting through this need without many hassles.

What does VIP Anonymizer give us is the list of available proxy servers through which we can browse needed sites. There is nothing much to configure this tool, its easy to use one with very few steps to go about, a novice user can do it without much information or you may call it simply a No Brainer thing.

Here you go for list of things you need to do to get VIP Anonymizer up and running, download the program from www.vipdefense.com site, click on the setup.exe file after download and keep on clicking next button to the reach the finish button for all default actions unless and until you need to install it in a different folder than the default c:\program files folder.

After you install you need to select the proxy server through which you need to browse. Active list of proxy servers is marked by green and inactive ones by red. There are not much of options or preferences to go about in the program; all you can do is to list out your own proxy list which is simply through a notepad list of known proxy servers. You can activate the proxy while at startup; as soon as the list is activated you can browse anonymously and peacefully. The active proxy gets activated in the options section of Internet Explorer, Firefox browsers and also MSN messenger automatically. This would leave the user an easy to configure option. You can all the while automatically switch between active proxies without much hassles, all the while you need to do is check mark the automatically switch between proxy option.

Advantages:

  • Internet browsing through anonymous proxy servers.

  • Auto-checking of proxies for workability.

  • Automatic switching of proxies with prescribed frequency to wipe out all tracks.

  • Fine proxy list tuning.

  • Proxy activation on startup.

  • Choose either to use fixed list of proxies or load them from file or update from the Internet.

  • Several tens of new anonymous proxy servers ready to hide your traffic available through automatic update daily.

Disadvantages:

  • No protection from Active X objects.

  • No protection from Java Scripts.

  • Doesn’t clean the online traces on the user computer.

  • Not a user-friendly interface, the buttons doesn’t differentiate between start and stop.

  • No options to choose for different browsers (If a user feels he needs only to surf anonymously through IE and go through normal traffic through Firefox).

  • No interactivity in configuring the tool.