Using Anonymizer Anonymous Surfing 6.0
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Introduction
Anonymizer® Anonymous Surfing™ protects your identity when you surf
the Internet with easy, 1-click privacy. It prevents snoops and spammers from
gathering your personal and confidential information. Anonymous Surfing also
defends you against the latest pharming, phishing, and evil twin scams.
Set it and forget it - simply turn on Anonymous Surfing automatic protection when you’re online. Once it’s activated, Anonymous Surfing redirects your Web traffic through our secure servers and hides your online identity.
For even stronger protection, you can also enable Surfing Security™ SSL Encryption, which creates an encrypted “virtual tunnel” from your computer to the Anonymizer network. This shields you from the most sophisticated methods of online spying and snooping and is a must-have for anyone utilizing a wireless network.
Control Panel - Using Anonymizer Anonymous Surfing
On
Clicking “On” hides your IP Address and protects you from phishing
and pharming scams.
Enable Surfing Security?
Checking the box to “Enable Surfing Security” allows you to surf
in a secure, encrypted "tunnel" from Anonymizer to your PC. Surfing
Security uses powerful 128-bit encryption, similar to that used by online banking
sites.
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Enable Malicious
Website Filtering
Checking the box to “Enable Malicious Website Filtering” turns on
special filtering which will warn you of potentially hazardous websites. Spyware
and other malicious software can use ActiveX and Java to compromise your system
and personal information. Anonymizer maintains a list of websites known for
malicious code infections.
Off
Clicking “Off” disables Anonymous Surfing.
IP Hiding
Your IP address can be tracked when you surf the Internet. It’s like Caller
ID on the Web. This section displays your real IP address and the anonymous
IP address that is visible to Web sites when Anonymous Surfing is active.
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Protection Indicators
These red and green indicators provide your privacy protection status at a glance.
So it’s easy to determine if Anonymous Surfing is on and you are protected.
IP Anonymity - When this indicator light is green, your real IP address is hidden from Web administrators and online snoops as you surf the Internet. By shielding your IP address, people are unable to track your Internet activities and build profiles on you.
Anti-Phishing - When this indicator light is green, your Anonymizer anti-phishing protection is active. If you click on a link in an email that takes you to a known phishing site, Anonymizer will alert you to the danger by displaying a warning page. If you wish, you may proceed to the site by clicking the “Continue” button on the page. This is not recommended because many phishing sites may also infect your computer with spyware. Please visit our Resource Center to learn more about phishing scams.
Anti-Pharming - When this indicator light is green, your Anonymizer anti-pharming protection is active. Anonymous surfing protects you against Hosts file pharming and DNS cache poisoning to ensure that every URL typed into your browser takes you to the legitimate Web sites. Please visit our Resource Center to learn more about pharming attacks.
Wi-Fi Security - When this indicator light is green, your Anonymizer wi-fi protection is active. Anonymous Surfing uses 128-bit patented “Surfing Security” SSL encryption to secure the data that you send over a wireless connection and protect you against the latest evil twins scam. Please visit our Resource Center to learn more about evil twins.
Malicious Website Filtering - When this indicator light is green,
your Anonymizer malicious website filtering protection is active. Spyware and
other malicious software can use ActiveX and Java to compromise your system
and personal information. When you try to access a site that has been identified
by Anonymizer as dangerous, your browser will display a warning page. You may
proceed from this page to the site, with an option to filter out the potentially
malicious content.
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How can I use Anonymizer with my firewall program?
You’ll need to set your firewall to permit anonymizer.exe and anonproxy.exe to access our servers, or Anonymizer will not function properly.
I keep getting a “Cannot detect Internet connection” message. What should I do?
This may occur if you do not have an Internet connection or your firewall is blocking our program from detecting a connection. Please check that your Internet connection is working.
I keep getting a message that you can't authenticate me with your Privacy Network.
Please try exiting the program and your browser, or restart your computer. If you continue to have difficulties, please call us at 888-270-0141 or 858-866-1300 for assistance Monday through Friday.
Why do I keep getting the following message: “Account Not Authorized?”
Please make sure you are logging in with the correct username and password. If you continue to have difficulties, please call us at 888-270-0141 or 858-866-1300 for assistance Monday through Friday.
What happened to the Internet Explorer toolbar?
The Internet Explorer toolbar control for Anonymous Surfing is being updated for maximum protection and will be included in an upcoming version.