Saturday, June 13, 2009

Proxy Servers!

Hackers are everywhere portscanning IP addresses for security holes! Finding a security hole in your IP makes you vulnerable to many kinds of attack! One of the ways of defending yourself from these kind of hackers is by using Proxy Servers.

WHAT IS A PROXY SERVER?
Its a software that hides your IP address and thereby prevent unauthorized access to your computer through the Internet. They do not provide anyone with your IP address and effectively hide any information about you and your reading interests. Besides that, they don’t even let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server. Anonymous proxy servers can be used for all kinds of Web-services, such as Web-Mail (MSN Hot Mail, Yahoo mail), web-chat rooms, FTP archives, etc.


HOW TO SETUP A PROXY SERVERS?
Go to control panel
1)Phone and modem options
2)In that select Advanced tab
3)In Providers list, click Microsoft H.323 Telephony Service Provider, and then click Configure.
4)In Configure check H.323 Service Provider
5)To specify an H.323 proxy, select the Use H.323 proxy, and then type the server name or IP address for the proxy.

Do not know how to configure it? Then try out the proxy software from http://www.proxy4free.com


Source: http://www.proxy4free.com/

1 comment:

Sagar said...

wat about ppl with broadband .... :-?