I have Tor/privoxy downloaded and running. Have the "P" in the green circle and the onion with the checkmark showing in the icon tray.
I am using netscape for my browser while surfing (MSN DSL is my primary provider) and is set up for port 8118 and has
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 . showing in the privoxy configuration line.
My usual process for secure surfing is to first log on to the net through my isp. Then I fire up the proxy system, and then start up netscape browser which is configured for privacy thanks to Who The Kid from CW.

I have arranged for Tor to start when pc starts up.

When I downloaded Tor/privoxy a icon was made on my desktop screen. When I clicked it, it installed Tor/Privoxy onto my pc and both icons showed up in my icon tray activated because I clicked the "run this file now" box at the end of the installment.

But after turning off my pc and then rebooting it, only the Tor onion icon showed back up and active in my icon tray and the only way I can get the Privoxy to start up again and the icon to show in my icon tray is to click on the install icon on my desktop and go through the 30 second install routine again and leave the "run file now" box checked and then I am up and running again.

SOOOOOOOO, my question is how can I get the Privoxy part of things to start up right away at pc start up or at least get a icon on the desktop that just starts the privoxy instead of always having to re-install it even with it already being on the pc?

[BudGood2006]

It was far easier for me to just get Mozilla FireFox, set it up for proxy all the time, and use Firefox for secure surfing. Anything else I use my default browser, which shows my IP. Seems to work a bit better, and Privoxy/Tor start up right away when I click on Firefox. Hope that helps...

Originally Posted by Slickster

That Tor/Privoxy onion thing is government owned. And the Firefox is a sell out. I use Anobrowse, a non-local "government" offshore program available free on download com. There are more free ones, just do not get anything with onion "smelly".

Do you have any proof of information to support this logic? The lurks is interested to know why slickster says this.

I too am very interested in this info, there are alot of people here using it. I stopped using it a while back.

Mo,

https://tor.eff.org/

https://tor.eff.org/people.html.en

https://freehaven.net/

Can someone read through that stuff and tell the lurks it's not any better than a static proxy that might be eilite or anonymous or any of these pay software items that are more likely to be a threat than open source? Because everything the lurks sees is that it is the best alternative.

[BudGood2006]

From what I understand, it WAS funded by DARPA, but is no longer. I seriously don't think that it is a "government-owned" program. But, I could be wrong.

Well what I read at the website and elswhere is that it was founded at MIT and maintained now by the reptutaion of the nodes connected. That would be the users running it and maintaining server status. If I understand correctly Weasel on their irc channel wrote some of the code. These people are college students and graduate students that started the concept and put it in action. Unless I can read text somewhere otherwise saying that it is a potential threat. What i read is that the more users, the better.

https://freehaven.net/doc/econp2p03/econp2p03.pdf

[Gamera]

https://www.whitedust.net/article/28/...20the%20Yang?/

Very interesting article Gamera ... charges my brains paranoia cells, any links to MIT would have me nervous. Just a big recruiting ground for the goverment if you ask me.

Mo,

[HappyHemphog]

Tor/Privoxy are recomended by privacy and human rights groups to dissadents trying to communicate with the outside world from within much more oppresive governments than the United Corporations of America.

While no single item will guarantee you 100% anonymity and security, it's always in your best interest to use many tools to cover as much of your tracks as possible. Tor/Privoxy are just another set of tools we can use to help us stay safe.

I, for one, try to leave as few dots behind for LEO to play connect the dots with.

Cheers!
Hempy