Best ways to hide your own ip address?

I've used services like Ghostsurf, but after awhile it doesn't work becuase it sitll ends up getting detected and the real ip comes through. I know of a program called Tor, but I'm not very technical into figuring out how to use it. Any other programs or ways to hide an ip address, preferably working ways.

 

Ad Muncher offers a i/p scrambler. You can give it a shot. Its free for 30 days. When you pick a i/p you can test it to see if it shows your real one or not. I/P scrambler is ad munchers way of saying "surf anomious. I did try it and it works ok. Just rember your surfing will be slower.

 

Thanks for the help guys, and thanks for deleting the unhelpful stuff whatever it was, Major.
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Anyways I've tried Anonymizer and it didn't work either. I think they still have a way of seeing my real ip.

 

You can go through a proxy server. I'm not sure of exactly how this is done, but I have a how-to guide around here somewhere. Give me a little time, and when I find it, I'll post the info or a link or whatever...

 

Please refrain from posting advice in the tech forums that you cannot back up with concrete facts. If and when you have that information, then make your post. This is much more helpful to the Original Poster and anyone else reading, and ensures completeness of information.

 

Sorry, my bad Just wanted to mention something I had heard of... anyway... attached is a zip file of text docs (one of 'em requires Word) about proxies. Some of the info may be a bit old, but the concept is still the same. I got this info from an old "hacker" type of guy I knew back in the day. I hope this helps...

 

Get a USB flash drive, download and put TorPark on it
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Torpark_d5395.html
you now have anonymous browsing. (It isn't hard to do this way).
Warning...it will be slow both because it is running from a flash drive and because it is going through a server to grab web pages.

 

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JAP works, but I'm worried if they figure out the ip it uses or whatever, there's only so many free servers.
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And thank you so much guys, all of you have been a great help on my quest to personal security.

 

Well tor seemed to show a different ip, but the place was still able to record my root ip, ie: my real ip. So.. I'm wondering.. is it really possible to make your root ip invisible?

 

Vidalia Bundle + Firefox is a very effective combination..you should try it.

 

If someone wants to find out your IP, they will.

Tor is great for obfuscating your IP a bit - for traffic that's directed to use it.

What about the rest of the user's net traffic? By default, Tor only does HTTP, SSL, and SOCKS. What about the FTP protocols? What about ICMP? What about IMAP/POP/SMTP?

The nature of the internet is NOT private. Try this for an illustration:

1. Hit windows key + r (or click Start --> Run)
2. In the 'Run' dialog, type 'CMD' (without the quotes)
3. Press enter (or click the 'OK' button)
4. At the command prompt, type 'tracert www.majorgeeks.com'
5. Press enter

The command prompt will now show you every router your traffic has to pass through to simply connect to majorgeeks. I have at least 10 "hops". This is with privoxy/vidalia/tor installed and running on my machine.

That's how the internet works: it's inter-network traffic. You access different servers by travelling through the networks that provide the fastest available route. You don't have a direct connection.

With Tor, you have an encrypted connection from the proxy (Privoxy) you install on your computer to a server in the Tor network, but you still have to get to that server. Any hop along the way could potentially log, and decrypt your data at their leisure.

Tor and proxy servers might fool the end server into thinking you're using a different IP, but if you TRULY want privacy, stay off the internet.

 

Excellent points, mada.