Saturday, 20 July 2013

How to pick the best privacy software




It's not easy when it comes to picking the best privacy software for your computer from the variety available in the market as every other program has different features attached to it. Before choosing one it always best to do a detailed study to find the possible threat to your privacy.
Below are a few risks that can help you choose the best privacy

Privacy of your Local Machine

If your primary apprehension is to guard your privacy from the many people you share your computer with; then it’s the most easiest and simplest of all problem to be solved. For the matter of fact, it’s improbable you need software at all because many of the latest browsers have inbuilt privacy features. These features remove traces of internet browsing from your local machine like web history, cookies and records. For the matter of fact if you are using the privacy mode (known as incognito mode in Chrome) or you don’t forget to clear the web history then be sure that your surfing is kept private from the others who shared the computer.

Privacy from the sites you visit on the Internet

Every site that you visit on the Internet will record the detailed information of your connection in its logs, that’s based on the IP address that you use in order to link it to the ISP account and your computer. To prevent this you will require browsing through a proxy server, there are numerous privacy programs that hunt for anonymous or unspecified proxies and change the browser settings and help you surf through them. In this case only the proxies are recorded and the IP address is prevented from getting logged on the Internet server.

Although the session is logged on a proxy server that you are surfing through, always make sure that the privacy software you select uses private proxies that are safe rather than just searching for free proxy servers on the internet as they are not only unsafe to surf but frequently run and managed by identity thieves who may want to steal your identity and cause you harm.

Complete Privacy

Last but not the least protection of your complete connection. Most of the complete logs and history of the web browser you surf get stored on your ISP, which are normally kept for two years or more in the Europe and US. Although a government requirement for investigations when demanded there is no tab as to how the data is stored or secured. These ISP logs are complete records of all email, website or download made by you on the internet and should be completely secured but do they seem to be?

Your connection needed to be encrypted if you wish to make the logs non readable and secure you connection from ISP, wireless and other logs. Seek a privacy software programs which offer a secure an encrypted tunnel or VPN as it will make sure that the data is encrypted and non readable to others.

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