How to hide IP address

People try do this with Proxy services. However, in general, if people want to find you they can. So use a Proxy service and understand the limitation that proxies obfuscate but cannot truly hide.

.... Thinkpads_User

Any recommendations?

Try this: https://www.torproject.org/

This will allow you to surf the web anonymously. You will have to install a client on the computer, which will contact you to the Tor network. Then you have to change the proxy settings of your browser to use the Tor network.

Alternatively you can download the preconfigured Tor Browser: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en


Let me know if this works for you.

Not really. I do not need to hide my IP address and no one I know needs to either. So I do not use proxy servers.

Here is a site that lists a number of them.

http://www.proxy4free.com/

... Thinkpads_User

The proxy server doesn't actually hide your IP address. What it does is, it gives you a different IP address that is not yours. So if someone is trying to track you they will see the new IP address you got from the proxy server and not your personal IP which would reveal your location.

Tor is basically a proxy network. It is usually a lot faster than any of the free proxy servers you find on the web.

Once you installed Tor go to http://www.iplocation.net/. There you can see your new IP as well as it's new location.

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Hi,

If they want to hide their IP address they would need to use a VPN tunnel service. So that their traffic will be tunelled to the VPN Service Provider and then will go to the internet with thier IP addresses so that any connection you make through the VPN service could not be traced back to you. It also provide you users to change the IP address range so that they may be going to internet from different spots in the US and/or Europe depending on what VPN provider you use. This also helps to avoid some limitations that some countries impose over internet usage.

I suggest your client to use some paid service over free ones. Because free ones are either there for research over people's browsing habits or limited in both speed and availability.This may create a problem for your customer.


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Cheers,
K.

http://hidemyass.com is perfect for that guy :-)

Best to stick with VPN's. That will encrypt all of your traffic allow you to exit from one of their servers somewhere in the world. He may want to choose a alternate DNS as well because your DNS activity is recorded as well which can tell you almost as much as the actual traffic. TOR may not be the right option for your client because TOR needs support from the application (it only handles TCP).

Here is a link to my ongoing review of VPN providers.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtDLMtAQhCqHdGxDaFhENjByMkRkUGtlZGZHR0lqUXc#gid=0

Depends what you plan on doing with it really, but what ever happens do not send out any sensitive information over free proxy servers you never know whos hands your data will end up in this goes double for the TOR network. But as mentioned the best method would be a paid for VPN services.