Anonymizer Survey: Anti-virus and Firewall popular but ineffective privacy protectors
October 24th, 2011 by Lance Cottrell
Anonymizer just released the results of a new survey of people’s use of privacy protecting technologies. The short answer is that the old standards, anti-virus and firewalls, are widely used. Unfortunately they don’t actually do much to protect your privacy. They are more about security.
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- Lance Cottrell
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January 15th, 2012 at 12:28 am
I agree, the basic firewall and anti-virus software doesn’t do the trick these days to deter a high end hacker. I think the core issue starts with an IP address through a rotating proxy, like Anonymizer. This way it makes it difficult, if not impossible, to locate the computer behind the IP, if the hacker is constantly chasing a different IP every 15 minutes.
February 7th, 2012 at 12:52 am
Sorry for Off-Topic, but just noticed that http://www.dnsleaktest.com/ reports Anonymizer Universal leaking in Windows 7 (ISP DNS listed in results). Is this spurious or a problem?