Protection
Beyond Anti-Virus and Firewall Programs
Anonymous Surfing protects
your privacy and your identity by preventing cyber criminals
from detecting your personal information and tracking your
online activities.
Does
Anonymizer Software Hide My IP Address?
Anonymous Surfing enables
anonymous web browsing which hides your IP address so online
snoops are unable to track the sites you visit and build
profiles on your Internet activities. By redirecting your
Web traffic through our secure servers, your online identity
is protected. Our servers are armed with 128-bit Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, similar to that of your
bank.
How Else Does
Anonymizer Software Protect Me?
Additionally, Anonymous
Surfing also protects you from inadvertently visiting Web
sites that are known to be phishing, pharming, or spyware
sites. If you unknowingly attempt to visit one of these
sites, a warning page will display to notify you of the
hidden dangers that are lurking ahead.
How Does
Anonymous Surfing Protect Against Phishing, Pharming and
Evil Twin Attacks?
Engineered with your
protection in mind, Anonymizer's anonymous web browsing
capabilities are among the safest and most secure available
for consumers. Because there is a need for more than just
another IP hider for anonymous web browsing, Anonymous
Surfing includes much more protection for you.
Phishing
Phishing threats
lure unsuspecting email recipients into clicking a
link in an email that appears to be from their bank.
The email asks them to update their account
information. However, these clever scams are simply
trying to steal your personal information, credit
card information, and more.
Anonymous Surfing has a
real-time anti-phishing feed that integrates into your
Web browser protecting you against phishing scams.
Updated every fifteen minutes, this added protection
automatically displays a warning to notify you that you
are being led to a known phishing site.
Pharming
Pharming attacks
are similar to phishing in nature, but they don't
rely on you clicking on a fraudulent email. Pharming
attacks are even more dangerous because they are
able to redirect you to a fraudulent Web site even
if you type the URL into your Internet browser.
Anonymous Surfing
protects against pharming threats by routing all of your
Internet traffic through our hardened, secure servers.
In addition, when you have Anonymous Surfing activated,
your Host file is never accessed so even if it's
corrupted, you will still arrive at your intended
destination safely.
Evil Twins
Evil twins
trick wireless users into connecting a laptop or PDA
to a tainted hotspot by posing as a legitimate wi-fi
provider. Once you connect to their wireless
network, the evil twins can watch your online
activities and steal your confidential information
such as account numbers and passwords.
Anonymous Surfing
protects against evil twins by routing all of your
Internet traffic through our secure servers, thus
bypassing the fraudulent hotspot.