I´ve written about virtual computers before and found a nice way program to make the same method available for virtual software installations. Altiris Software Virtualization Solution lets you install every kind of software in a protected environment that prevents access from this software to your core system. This is great if you want to try out some new alpha / beta software or software that you are suspicious about.

PcMag has a great review about the software and offers a download for it as well. Its free for personal use and can be setup with ease. What the software does is the following, it creates a layer for the software that you want to install and emulates the surrounding operating system. Everything the newly installed software does is now done inside this layer and not in your real operating system.

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The question that many people ask is why would someone want to surf anonymously in the first place. Why would someone who does not do something illegal want to surf anonymously at all ? I can think of lots of reasons, here are a few:

You come from a country where free speech is only a theory. Countries include china, north korea, most islamic countries, germany and france for instance.

You work in an environment that prohibits access to parts of the internet.

You write about a certain situation and want to make sure no one knows that it´s you, for instance you blog about your current job or the situation in your home town.

You dislike that the government tries to track everyone and everything on the internet.

You are paranoid

Hope that´s settled now. Let us start with the methods and technology to stay anonymous.

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The guys of darknet.org.uk have posted a new article that lists the 10 best security live cd distros. Each distribution is introduced in a small paragraph and features links to the distributions homepage.

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I found a new list of proxy sites, 300 in total. Should be something for everyone and I suppose you find some that work in your environment. Head over to proxylist.wordpress.com to check them out.

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I was not sure if I should post a link to a story that describes who to porn surf safely. Not many people would openly admit that they are surfing on porn sites and not many will ask for help if they encounter difficulties while doing this. There´s always been good and bad sex sites out there security wise. The bad ones bombard you with popups, dialers, trojans and the like while the good ones behave like every other website out there.

The article from tinynibbles.com tries to explain many of the bad things that can happen while surfing the internet. (not only while looking at sex sites, other sites use many of those methods as well).

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