AboutDave Mitch Expertise Trouble shooting in any of the following areas: Virus / Spy-ware / Mal-ware issues, Windows, Linux, virtual environments such as VMWare, Virtual ToolBox. Vast and varied hands-on expertise in a range of open source network security tools and utilities.Have worked on projects requiring practical implementation and configuration tweaking of Intrusion Detection / Prevention Systems, Enterprise-class Patch Management Solutions, Customization of Network Audit Framework and Penetration Test Tool Compilation. Consultant for corporations, NOCs (Network Operations Centres) in the area of Virtual appliances for office(and home) environments for secure browsing / traffic monitoring / Anti-spam / "anti-phising" with content filtering capability.
Experience Virus/Spyware/Malware trouble shooting, Windows, VMWare, Linux. With over 10 years of industry experience in the Information Security field, I would be able to offer my experience and time to solve your problem. If any solution requires more time and effort or you require a customized product, I would be able to do so for a small fee.
Organizations FA Inc.
Education/Credentials Graduate Degree in Computer Science
Question Hi Dave, I would like to visit websites anonymously. For example, if I visited somebody's webpage, or social networking site, I know that I would leave some kind of 'digital footprint'. I'm assuming that, if the owner of the webpage had the desire and knowledge, I personally could be identified by the 'digital footprint' left when I visited.
Given the above, what can I do such that I could not be identified when visiting websites? I have recently learned about 'proxys' which will supposedly conceal my IP address. Is this all that is necessary? Is IP address the only 'digital footprint' left after visiting a website? Thanks.
Answer You can use a software like "tor" (download link here -> www.torproject.org/download.html.en )to conceal your IP address from a website.
You would also need to give fictitious details (like email id etc.) if you don not want to reveal your true identity.
Online proxy servers can also mask your IP. But their efficacy is questionable at times.
