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Proxy Chaining to stay in the shadows. Better safe than sorry has never been more true than with doing "questionable" things online where EVERYTHING is logged.
Proxy chaining is merely connecting to more than one proxy and then to your intended destination. You can use as many proxy servers as you can or want. The more you have, the more anonymous you will be. Remember, it doesnt matter how many proxies you chain together, you will never be 100% anonymous.However this is the most anonymity most users will attain. Advanced users know how to be 100% anon. Lets look at an example.
[User]>>>>>[Proxy1]>>>>>[Proxy2]>>>>>[Proxy3]>>>>>[Proxy4]>>>>>[Destination]
The example shows that for a proxy chain to be created, the user must first connect to Proxy1. Once the user is connected to Proxy1, from Proxy1, the user will connect to Proxy2, from Proxy2, the user will connect to Proxy3, from Proxy3, the user will connect to Proxy4, from Proxy4, the user will then connect to the intended destination (web page, Unix server, ftp server, etc.). All together we have 4 proxies in this example. Each proxy is a link in the chain. If the user would be scanned while on the proxy chain in the example, the IP address or domain of Proxy4 would appear on the scan. Now the problem with proxies is they tend to die out in a few weeks or less. It all depends. So if Proxy2 were to cease functioning, the chain wouldnt work. You would need to get rid of Proxy2 and just use Proxy1, Proxy3, and Proxy4 or find another proxy to take Proxy2s place. This is why proxy chaining can be a real pain if you are using them just to surf the net. If one dies, you have to figure out which one is the one not working, so you have to go through each one to check them or until you find the one that isnt working.
As I said, you will never be 100% anonymous no matter what you do online so it is possible that you still can be tracked even if u chain proxies. Chaining just makes it a lot hard to track someone. To make it even harder, its best to use foreign proxies because if someone wanted to trace you, they would need to get logs of your use of each proxy from each proxy administrator. This could take quite a while or even never at all if one of the proxys, or all for that matter, belong to an admin in a country that isnt too fond of the country you are located in. The longer it takes for the authorities to subpoena the logs of your usage of a single proxy from that proxys administrator, the more chance that the other proxies that you used in the chain will have their logs deleted by the time anyone gets to the server administrators of those proxies.
http Chaining
http chaining is basically chaining a proxy server in your browsers address bar. Example?
http://proxy.magusnet.com/-_-http://www.google.com
Notice how the above proxy and destination (yahoo) are seperated by a () If you wanted to make a chain out of this you would simply add another proxy ex. ( hxxp:// proxy.server1.com/-_-http://proxy.server2.com/-_-http://www.destination.com)
Another way to use proxys in your address bar is by adding the proxy IP or domain then the port number. Example
http://anon.free.anonymizer.com:80/http://www.google.com
Notice how the above proxy and destination server are seperated this time by a (/) forward slash instead of a () dash, underscore, dash. To make a chain out of this you would again simply add another proxy ex. ( hxxp://proxy1:80/hxxp://proxy2:80/proxy3:80/hxxp://www.yahoo.com)
Browser Chaining
To browser chain is fairly easy. Ill use Internet Explorer as an example since I believe it is the browser that most people have and use. First you need to find the Internet Options. You can do this by either finding the Explorer icon on the desktop, right click on it, then press properties or if you have a browser window already opened if you are online then you can go to Tools (or sometimes its View) and press Internet Options. Now that you have the Internet Options window up you can now go to the Connections tab, then go to the first Settings button (not LAN Settings, the one above it) and click it. Now you should be in the Settings box. Put a check in the box where it says to Use a proxy server. Now if you wanted to surf using one proxy you would merely put the proxy in the Address: space and put the proxy?s port number in the Port: space. To use a chain here you would put in a proxy along with a ? colon then the port number followed by a space separting the next proxy then a colon then the port number then a space and so on. The last proxy you add should have its port number placed inside the Port: space. If you did it, then it should look like this exactly?
Address: 213.234.124.23:80 121.172.148.23:80 143.134.54.67 Port: 80
***Notice that each proxy port is separated by a space and that the last proxy has its port number placed in the Port: space. Do not check the box marked Bypass proxy server for local addresses.Press OK when you see that everything is in working order***
Proxy chaining is merely connecting to more than one proxy and then to your intended destination. You can use as many proxy servers as you can or want. The more you have, the more anonymous you will be. Remember, it doesnt matter how many proxies you chain together, you will never be 100% anonymous.However this is the most anonymity most users will attain. Advanced users know how to be 100% anon. Lets look at an example.
[User]>>>>>[Proxy1]>>>>>[Proxy2]>>>>>[Proxy3]>>>>>[Proxy4]>>>>>[Destination]
The example shows that for a proxy chain to be created, the user must first connect to Proxy1. Once the user is connected to Proxy1, from Proxy1, the user will connect to Proxy2, from Proxy2, the user will connect to Proxy3, from Proxy3, the user will connect to Proxy4, from Proxy4, the user will then connect to the intended destination (web page, Unix server, ftp server, etc.). All together we have 4 proxies in this example. Each proxy is a link in the chain. If the user would be scanned while on the proxy chain in the example, the IP address or domain of Proxy4 would appear on the scan. Now the problem with proxies is they tend to die out in a few weeks or less. It all depends. So if Proxy2 were to cease functioning, the chain wouldnt work. You would need to get rid of Proxy2 and just use Proxy1, Proxy3, and Proxy4 or find another proxy to take Proxy2s place. This is why proxy chaining can be a real pain if you are using them just to surf the net. If one dies, you have to figure out which one is the one not working, so you have to go through each one to check them or until you find the one that isnt working.
As I said, you will never be 100% anonymous no matter what you do online so it is possible that you still can be tracked even if u chain proxies. Chaining just makes it a lot hard to track someone. To make it even harder, its best to use foreign proxies because if someone wanted to trace you, they would need to get logs of your use of each proxy from each proxy administrator. This could take quite a while or even never at all if one of the proxys, or all for that matter, belong to an admin in a country that isnt too fond of the country you are located in. The longer it takes for the authorities to subpoena the logs of your usage of a single proxy from that proxys administrator, the more chance that the other proxies that you used in the chain will have their logs deleted by the time anyone gets to the server administrators of those proxies.
http Chaining
http chaining is basically chaining a proxy server in your browsers address bar. Example?
http://proxy.magusnet.com/-_-http://www.google.com
Notice how the above proxy and destination (yahoo) are seperated by a () If you wanted to make a chain out of this you would simply add another proxy ex. ( hxxp:// proxy.server1.com/-_-http://proxy.server2.com/-_-http://www.destination.com)
Another way to use proxys in your address bar is by adding the proxy IP or domain then the port number. Example
http://anon.free.anonymizer.com:80/http://www.google.com
Notice how the above proxy and destination server are seperated this time by a (/) forward slash instead of a () dash, underscore, dash. To make a chain out of this you would again simply add another proxy ex. ( hxxp://proxy1:80/hxxp://proxy2:80/proxy3:80/hxxp://www.yahoo.com)
Browser Chaining
To browser chain is fairly easy. Ill use Internet Explorer as an example since I believe it is the browser that most people have and use. First you need to find the Internet Options. You can do this by either finding the Explorer icon on the desktop, right click on it, then press properties or if you have a browser window already opened if you are online then you can go to Tools (or sometimes its View) and press Internet Options. Now that you have the Internet Options window up you can now go to the Connections tab, then go to the first Settings button (not LAN Settings, the one above it) and click it. Now you should be in the Settings box. Put a check in the box where it says to Use a proxy server. Now if you wanted to surf using one proxy you would merely put the proxy in the Address: space and put the proxy?s port number in the Port: space. To use a chain here you would put in a proxy along with a ? colon then the port number followed by a space separting the next proxy then a colon then the port number then a space and so on. The last proxy you add should have its port number placed inside the Port: space. If you did it, then it should look like this exactly?
Address: 213.234.124.23:80 121.172.148.23:80 143.134.54.67 Port: 80
***Notice that each proxy port is separated by a space and that the last proxy has its port number placed in the Port: space. Do not check the box marked Bypass proxy server for local addresses.Press OK when you see that everything is in working order***
