scooby
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join:2001-05-01
Schaumburg, IL
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May 11th, @11:34PM
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Re: message boards
The people working at Best Buy/Geek Squad and Circuit City generally are not the most trustworthy and usually do not have the most reliable information.
Anonymous access is not illegal. There are hundreds if not thousands of anonymous proxies that you can buy service from. At my last job we used Cotse.net's $5.95 a month service to spy on our competitors. I am not sure what your anonymizer software does but usually you can just download software, pay a monthly or yearly fee from a place like cotse or anonymizer.com and you are all set.
Good luck.
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There is even a free opensource solution that works on windows as well as linux. It is not always the fastest but it is free. »www.torproject.org/ |
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doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD | Hey Scooby...if I dl the link you posted, how will that affect the anonymizer software I purchased from Circuit City? If it will affect it at all. I don't want one to screw with the other.
Oh, and thanks for your help!!! |
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scooby
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join:2001-05-01
Schaumburg, IL
| It should not have any affect on the software you purchased. Tor is just an app you can run. When it is not running it does not do anything. It would be an awesome app if you could somehow limit who you connect to. When you connect to someone in Russia or another bandwidth starved country, it is pretty slow. |
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doglover
join:2008-05-10
Middle River, MD
| I have good news. I pleaded with Talk Admin at my message board and they unblocked my IP address so now I am free to post again!!!!!!
The anonymizer is on it's way to my house. I was going to cancel the order but I've changed my mind. Guess I'll keep it in case I need it in the future.
I still have a question though....
If my husband installs the anonymizer on his pc, will that also affect my pc as well...by that I mean will it block my IP address when I visit sites? |
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italiansmoke
join:2005-07-21
Monroe, MI
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May 15th, @11:42AM
| It shouldn't. I would assume it would only "anonymize" the computer for which it was installed on. Then again, i've never used one so I can't say for sure.
Is it a program or a peice of hardware? If it's software, it should only work through the computer it's installed on. If it's hardware, it would anonymize everything connected through it(if it is hardware, i'm imagining a router-type device with multiple plugs in the back). |
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