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Internet Privacy Protection

Internet risks - Privacy test

Internet is full of potential risk to your privacy and security. Every time you surf the web you leave traces of your Internet activity that can reveal your real-life identity and expose you to hackers, identity thieves and spammers. Using this information they can monitor your browsing habits and activities, spy upon you, steal personal information and exploit security holes in your system to cause damage to your computer.

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Internet risks

When you surf the Internet, any web resource you access can gather and record usage information about you such as your IP address, location, time of day, browser type, browser language, software configuration, operating system you are using, web pages last visited and other information that you might want to keep confidential.

Internet risks

IP address (Internet Protocol address) is your internet identification number. Everyone has an IP address to communicate on the Internet, in other words it's like a telephone number or mailing address. Using your IP it is possible to know your country, city, internet provider and even physical address. Hackers and identity thieves can use this information to steal personal information, spy upon you or cause damage to your PC. It is possible to restrict accessing any information or provide customized content to specific IP.
While most sites use information about OS and browser to provide a better surfing experience this information can also be used by hackers for virus attacks that use weaknesses in your system to get access to the content of your hard drive or RAM, steal personal information or cause damage to your computer. Information about last visited web pages can be used to track your web usage and profile your browsing habits. Spammers can use this information to send you spam and junk e-mails. Some sites use scripts and Java applets. While most of them are useful and commonly used to enhance the appearance and functionality of web sites, some are harmful as can be used to get access to your personal information or cause damage to your PC based on the information about your computer. Information about system settings can be used to track your location and spy upon you. Spammers can track your web usage and profile your browsing habits to send you spam and junk e-mails.
Using malicious scripts and Java applets it is possible to get various information about your computer. Some kinds of your computer information (ex. screen resolution) are harmless and can be used for statistical research or providing special advertisement. But some information is not as harmless (ex information about your disks, etc) and can be used by hackers to get access and cause damage to your computer.
As you surf the web, most web sites send cookies to your computer to track your Internet usage.Some cookies are "good" cookies, used for legitimate purposes, such as storing preferences, account information and remembering the choices you have made on the site. Some cookies are "bad" cookies. Bad cookies are used to track your browsing habits, purchase history, etc.

Proxy Question
• The proxy software logs show that I am surfing through proxies but the IP address test shows my real IP.

As you may know not all proxies hide an IP address. Transparent proxies are not applicable for private surfing as they do not hide your IP address. If you need to change your IP address, you should use anonymous or high anonymous proxies.