With expansion of internet, many websites promote themselves by sending you spam junk mails, advertisings and even spy wares. These things not only publicize your personal information, but also enable hackers and crackers to infiltrate your system. Anonymous proxy servers act as a wall between your data and internet, thereby providing security to your system [...]
Proxy server is the software installed on some network server. The main purpose of this software is to relay traffic between two network hosts (client and server), sometimes this software does some data caching (usually this is performed by HTTP proxies). If your browser is configured to work through the proxy server then all your [...]
Many school classrooms primarily use computers and the ‘net to gather and save information. More and more colleges are offering entire learning environments via a web-based medium where no physical classroom is even necessary. Employers are also following suite and using the Internet as a mass communication tool for employers to interact electronically with one [...]
When browsing the internet from a home PC, there are several elements that make the whole process possible.
First of all, on one end, we have our home PC. This PC is connected via its modem to the ISP’s server, which in turn is interconnected to servers around the world that host the specific web sites [...]
I’ve been using an anonymous web proxy service for some time now and I don’t think I would ever go back to ordinary surfing. It’s not that I am some sort of shadowy cyber criminal with some secret online life, no I pretty much surf the same web sites as everyone else, I certainly don’t [...]
One of the major reason Internet users may not be able to access websites is due to incorrect configuration of the internet content filter by their internet service provider. This means that your dial-up, DSL or cable modem company might be routinely blocking off websites because they contain the word “breast”, even though it might [...]
We’re all concerned with keeping not only our computers, but also our personal information safe as we surf the web these days. While email viruses are less of a threat than they were even a few years ago, identity theft is on the rise and identity thieves take advantage of every new technological development; adapting [...]
A proxy is quite handy if you need it. You may be using a computer that does not belong to you. In this case, someone else is the administrator of the computer. To explain this better, let’s use Windows operating system as an example.
The owner of the computer has probably configured the computer with at [...]
Before we get started to learn how to use a proxy, let me explain what a proxy is all about.
Proxy is nothing but a online server, an application or a system, in the computer networks, which processes the clients request and forwards it to the specified server. When we are connected to proxy server we [...]
Facebook is a world wide networking site devoted to people who want to share stories, upload pictures and find friends so that they can communicate. But there is a growing problem among business owners, schools and even some countries; they do not want this social networking site allowed into their networks. This proves problematic to [...]
