Proxy server - a special buffer between the user and the Internet. Proxy server - a special server, which is constantly online and caching passing through the files.

The proxy server at your ISP does the download pages faster. This comes from the fact chtochasto different users simultaneously trying to appeal to the same resources, so some Web pages have been uploaded by other users of the Internet service provider and kept in a cache, it follows that the page is loaded not from a remote server, and with a proxy server, this boot is produced faster.

Some proxy servers hide your IP-address, and your visits to sites, access to FTP sites through a proxy to be anonymous. Owner Web site does not constitute a large labor to learn about the visitors Resources is a wealth of information: your IP-address, which you browser, operating system, a country about the provider. It is only natural that there is a desire to remove from access all the above information, but also, sometimes you get an opportunity to get information from the site, which changes the answer depending on the country from which a request was received. It also authorizes a proxy to go to the Web site of your competitors completely anonymous.

To date, there is the problem of obtaining your IP-address of a hacker. In this case, it is likely to become a victim of his attack on your data, but, given the existence of gaps in the software Microsoft, you can also damage the valuable documents on your computer. The number of proxy servers that will hide your real IP-address, not too small. Yes, and yet not all proxies are completely anonymous. With a strong desire, the administrator of the website, you are watching through a proxy server, can determine not only the IP-address (proxy server-a)., But your real IP-address, which is the address from which you address to the proxy. There is a problem and that the proxy does not delete cookies. True, this can be done independently. There are two ways: 1 - in the properties file cookies.txt to attribute read-only (read-only), 2 - to ban the use of cookies in your browser settings. If you prefer, you can always find a "good" proxy, which is a proxy, the owner who either openly declares its availability to all users, or proxy, which does not restrict access, as most users do not know.

Anonimayzery (Anonymizer)

For safe surfing on the network can use special services, the so-called anonymizer (proxy). To visit the page you just need to put a link to it and press «Hide Me». If you go on a link posted on the current page, the anonymizer repeats the procedure for a new page, which eliminates the need to once again enter the correct address. With such a surfboard «trace» in the log-files leaves office, rather than you, that gives the inability to collect your personal information. Files cookies while you do not reach. There are sites that are not available through the anonymizer, the owners want to keep track of who, where and when they visited the site.