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Tor

Version: 0.2.1.20-0.2.5

Downloads Count: 60,946

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Dec 7, 2009

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7

File Size: 9764 KB

Author: The Tor Project

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Editorial Review of Tor

A surprising amount of information about you can be gathered as you surf the Web--including the operating system you use, the sites you've visited recently, your geographic location, and possibly your company (based on your IP address).

To keep these pieces of information private, try Tor, a free program that protects your anonymity as you surf. Tor takes all of your Internet communications, including instant messaging and other Internet applications, and sends them around a large network of "onion" routers that are Tor servers, making it impossible for sites or people to invade your privacy.

The Tor download includes other software that you need for maintaining your privacy--notably Privoxy, a proxy program. The programs work well together; and because the software self-configures, they are simple to use. Tor runs in your system tray. To become anonymous, right-click the icon and choose Start. From that point on, you'll be anonymous. To stop surfing anonymously, right-click again and choose Stop. You can even change your Tor identity for maximum cloaking.

Note: This program is donationware. It is free to try, but the author accepts and encourages donations towards further development.

--Preston Gralla

Description of Tor

When you browse the Web, your life is an open book. Web sites can track your online activities, know what operating system and browser you're running, find out your machine name, uncover the last sites you've visited, examine your history list, delve into your cache, examine your IP address and use that to learn basic information about you such as your geographic location--and there's more as well.

How to protect yourself? Use Tor, which protects you anonymity as you surf and use the Internet. When you use Tor, all your communications, (not just Web surfing, but also instant messaging and other applications) are essence bounced around a giant network of Tor servers called "onion routers," until it's impossible for sites or people to be able to track your activities.

When you download Tor, you get other software that works in concert with it, including Privoxy, a proxy program. All the software is self-configuring, so you won't need to muck around with port settings or the like. Tor runs as a small icon in your system tray. To start Tor, right-click it and choose Start from the menu that appears; to stop it, right-click it and choose Stop. Once it starts, simply use the Internet as you normally would. If you're somewhat paranoid, you can regularly change your Tor "identity," to make it even harder for anyone to track your travels. Tor also includes a nice bandwidth tool that graphs your bandwidth use.

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Reviewed by: deltasatisfier

03-07-2009

Duration of ownership: 2 Days

Strengths: Don't know

Weaknesses: Wouldn't load

Overall Evaluation: Worst of all, it refuses to uninstall. Now It has effectively slowed my start up time, all for nothing. Its an obscenity that PC World would even list this kind of garbage software. The only redeeming factor is if PC World will advise me on how to uninstall it.
Reviewed by: larmares

03-02-2009

Duration of ownership: 0 Months

Strengths: None. Slow to react to web browsing.

Weaknesses: Can't delete! Uninstall doesn't work; even changed the file names and it still installs!

Overall Evaluation: Really scared about privacy now, and disappointed in PCworld for not checking this out before recommending!

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