How do I shield my home IP address when posting to a web forum?

November 1st, 2009 |

Author: Scambuster

Posted in work from home forum

4 Responses to “How do I shield my home IP address when posting to a web forum?”

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November 2, 2009 at 4:23 am

you can’t you can try to purchase a program that says it will use a proxy but as you said you don’t know who you can trust with your IP address. the best thing to do in a blog is not give any personal info about yourself such as name or residence and keep comments legal,like no threatening the president (lol). but yes people can abnd will track your IP address as there are alot of wierdo’s on the net.
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rutabagadude:

November 2, 2009 at 5:01 am

There is one very effective way, but you need some experience with PCs. Install Tor (TheOnionRouter) on your system, and the IP address you show won’t be your own.

Another, easier, way is to visit a site like Anonymizer before you post your message. These web pages send your connection through a series of proxies (safe, in this case) that obfuscate your address.

Please don’t believe people like Pfo further down who say it can’t be done; I do it daily.
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http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ
http://www.anonymizer.com
Vivian:

November 2, 2009 at 5:51 am

You can try some of these softwares. They are compatible with web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape etc.

http://www.maskmyip.com/
http://www.proxyblind.org/
http://www.hide-ip-soft.com/ (free trial)
http://www.ninjasurfing.com/
http://www.netconceal.com/

Check them out and see which one suits you best! Good luck….
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Pfo:

November 2, 2009 at 6:16 am

You can’t hide your IP address. It’s like sending mail without a return address, your message will not be delivered. If you use a proxy server, it will simply forward your requests to the blog, but nothing prevents them from backtracking your IP through the proxy or many chains of proxy servers.

Some proxies could be bogus; they’d log all your traffic and look for username / password combos and keep track of the site they were used at. If you use a popular known proxy, you won’t have any problems.
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