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Originally Posted by pem
Sorry - but you are wrong.
First of all IP addresses are a very poor way to track people as they can change at any time (very few people have long term static IP's). Many people also access via NAT so potentially thousands of machines all appear to have the same IP (we have 3000+ pc's at work that all appear as one IP on the net).
Secondly using a proxy is a poor way to hide your IP as the proxy server will pass the originating IP on to the server as an http variable anyway and more and more software looks for this and records it.
As Keyser point out above - ports 3128 & 8080 are the "standard" ports used for proxy servers, not port 80.
The standard method used to track people is cookies - you could disable these but many sites rely on them to actually work. So you could no longer use the site.
Why are you so worried about hiding anyway ?
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If you have a decent firewall, antivirus and spyware package you have nothing to worry about. I used to use a program called a4 proxy that changes the headers and routes via so called anon proxys but I gave it up.
You are going to be at more risk going via anon proxy's anyway. As stated on this thread most of them are insecure services running on home pc's or business network isa servers, Any of these proxys can record all your web trafic !!!!!! Sniff passwords and log your activities !!!
You are better of conecting normaly......