How to hide your IP address ?
Why someone would like to hide own IP address and surf anonymously, and prevent web sites , Internet applications etc. to see where you are actually located. Some of those reasons are:
I want to protect my privacy and disable web site owners to know my geo location
Many hackers creates malware applications like viruses, Trojan, key loggers etc. and those application after infiltrations in your PC acts as clients application and are trying to report some data stolen from your PC to the application creators. The best way to prevent those application such a passwords that you type is to have fake IP address.
There is so many Internet sites that permits access only from users from some countries ( for example only form USA, Canada,... If you want to access some of those sites form other country you need to use IP address that is located in those countries and access desired web site.
It is illegal to access online gambling sites from United States and you may wish to access some online casino from US, with fake IP address that is located for example in Canada, UK etc, you can access online casino sites.
Forum, blogs , IRC chat clients etc, can use IP address detection to ban some visitors, with fake IP address you can access those site where you’ve been banned.
Some credit card processing companies that are licensed to make online transactions from credit card have strict anti fraud control system implemented. Anti fraud control is invented to detect unauthorized using of people credit cards by someone who is unauthorized, but also sometime can make you difficulties when you are trying to use your personal card online, while not in your country. When they detect that you are trying to use your credit card online for buying something from other country different than country you are living in , they can decline such request as suspicious. For example if you need to use your notebook for buying something online with credit card etc, but you are outside US you can always use Internet access with fake IP address located in your country and make online transaction that is not potentially suspicious for anti fraud control.
You want to send an email to someone but don’t want to make them capable to see where are you writing from actually, or want to make them think that you are writing from US while you are actually outside US etc. Using fake IP address can make that possible because your fake IP address will be written in the email message header and email received will se only fake IP address not real one that you are actually using.
If you find your self in some of those situations than only way to solve this problem is to purchase some of the software available in the market. There is many software solutions available to solve this kind of needs and their features and prices varies from case to case.
All software solutions for this purposes works on the same model. Company that provide software also provide their servers located in different countries with high bandwidth connection available for those servers and large blocks of IP addresses available. When you connect to Internet from your PC you can activate this software client application chose one of the available IP addresses form available countries and then accessing web sites and Internet application using this address. While software client is active all communication is make trough fake IP address located on remote server.
Main features of this software solutions are for example:
Bandwidth speed of their server that you need to use
Software algorithm used for transferring data between your pc and their remote server in both ways.
Number of IP addresses available
Number of countries where IP addresses are located…
We will try to inform you about some of the major solutions in this area with some short reviews and main features of those software solutions, prices, advantages and disadvantages. Read more about hide IP address software solutions if you want to make decision what software solution you want to buy.