Hide My IP, this sounds interesting!

There is a program you can purchase online called "Hide My IP" With this program and another program they call "cookie crumbler" you can,

Send Anonymous E-mails
Easily conceal your Ip address
Anonymous web surfing
Protect Identity
Stop Hackers


Sounds like a good program to protect yourself from malicious people. I might just purchase these programs for better internet security. :sunglasse

Does anybody else use these types of security programs to protect yourself?

 

why not just search for a serial number and crack the program - then if the program authors realise you've done that - they will never be able to find you because your ip will keep changing.

seriously though - I will test this out but truthfully I dont know if its going to work in a given situation - I will set it up under different conditions and let you know what I think - it sounds alright at the outset but who knows?

 

For the most effectiveness they say to get two programs "Hide My Ip" and "Cookie Crumbler". These are programs that you have to purchase, you have to go to the hide my ip website.

 

I just tried it and guess what it doesnt work -
The first thing I noticed was that when it first loaded it gave me the ip of the proxy server that my ISP assigns me - which means they are gathering the ip address from outside my network. Another thing thats dodgy is that they say it requires microsoft .Net
well I failed to see why it should since your ip address is assigned by your isp's dns and dhcp servers and .Net would suggest they are only changing the ip address as a browser cookie - which is rediculous because all that means is that a website will think your ip address is something different to the real ip address - however when they correlate that data on the web server with what they hav on their dns servers it will be different - then all they do is a whois lookup or a ping on the ipaddresses to see which fits you best.

In other words - they just change a cookie not the real ip address and thats useless - best way to do this anyway is to use an anonymising proxy - theres loads on the web google for +"anonymizer" +proxy

Its a partial con because theyre not telling the whole truth
to see that I am right - go to http://www.dnsstuff.com:8080 while the hide-my-ip program is running
in the top right hand corner you will see it hasnt cloaked it
If you use firefox theres extensions that achieve this effect for free and without using powerful technology like .Net that has the capacity to infiltrate at a secure level your network - effectively linking you to their search database I expect or some other crappy spammy thing they do with it

and that would suggest theyre so lame they cant acually work out how to melt the cookies while firefox is running or its a scam so you buy two programs

Infact I just did another test and it doesnt cloak it at all EVEN ON THE SITE IT SENDS YOU TO TO TEST THAT YOUR IP HAS BEEN MASKED
this must be because I'm behind my ISP's proxy
10/10 for being lameware 0/10 in the real software stakes

 

Thankyou for finding this out for me and others on here, I wasn't 100 percent sure about it. It sounded good. I was just simply going by what they advertise, and there rating. it's really something how some things can sound so much better than they are. I wont buy it now. I will look into what you said.

 

Just as an addendum:
I thought it was suspicious they wanted a technology like .Net to achieve their aims. Anyway it seems that they use it so they can implant their own version of dllhost.exe which is normally a .Net server for dll files. What this can be used for is a myriad of no good tricks - the most popular being to monitor your mail for spam databases
IE they send all your addresses to spam databases

do a search for google on dllhost.exe you'll see that - its a legit MS program that can be utilised maliciously

 

here is a good anonymiser to use
http://www.proxyez.com/

where it says "enter your url" just type the webpage you want to visit
to test its working go to http://www.dnsstuff.com:8080
and make sure it says a different url to your real one in the top RH corner of the page