Free webproxy that allows you to surf webpages like youtube and
myspace from work home and school
http://www.51proxy.info
http://www.freewebagent.com
http://www.surfunlimited.info
http://www.canbeanywhere.com

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iewei wrote:
> Free webproxy that allows you to surf webpages like youtube and
> myspace from work home and school
> http://www.51proxy.info
> http://www.freewebagent.com
> http://www.surfunlimited.info
> http://www.canbeanywhere.com
>


My last experiences using the web based proxies at work suggest that
they all are BLOCKED by Websense.

I tried to use the different 10 or so webproxies posted here, not even
one worked, I thought that having a wildcard option would be make them
difficult to block them but Websense must be blocking by IP number and
not domain name, so a wildcard becomes useless because they all point to
the same IP.

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macarro <email@is.invalid> wrote:

> iewei wrote: 
>
>
> My last experiences using the web based proxies at work suggest that
> they all are BLOCKED by Websense.
>
> I tried to use the different 10 or so webproxies posted here, not even
> one worked, I thought that having a wildcard option would be make them
> difficult to block them but Websense must be blocking by IP number and
> not domain name, so a wildcard becomes useless because they all point to
> the same IP.

Anyone whose being this deceptive (the wildcard SUB-domain thing is
pretty much useless against domain filtering too) probably has
something other than your privacy in mind and shouldn't be patronized.

Right from the start they claim using them makes you anonymous, which
is a lie. And they make a point of letting you know you can "log into
Gmail" and such, so they're probably nothing but a another scam site
trying to collect user names and passwords.

Lists of valid logins to popular public sites are for sale or trade all
over the Internet. It's big business. I have little doubt some of the
entries on those lists come from "free anonymous proxies" run by
cretins. Its akin to phishing. Lure someone into giving up the login
with lies about anonymity and low cost rather than lies about
compromised accounts and loss of money.

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Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:

> macarro <email@is.invalid> wrote:
> 
>
> Anyone whose being this deceptive (the wildcard SUB-domain thing is
> pretty much useless against domain filtering too) probably has
> something other than your privacy in mind and shouldn't be
> patronized.

I doubt we'll get a reply from spammers, but what *is* the point of the
wildcard thing? Are they marketing it as a way to bypass something, or
just as an easy way of creating a unique identity over a connection that
tries to make you blend in with a crowd?

Makes no sense at all. Anyone can, and most places do, block an entire
domain. So it's effectively useless as a tool to get around blocks, or
at least not any more useful than any other proxy.

Interesting also, is the fact that they offer no SSL (Apache is
listening on 443 but horribly misconfigured). This means that you're
really hiding nothing from anyone, even thought they use the standard
"anonymous" false claim we see so many other snake oil sites use.

Speaking of secureserver.net,  ;-) this isn't the only spam that's come
out of that domain, nor is spam the only crap they allow. There's been
numerous reports of phishing scams being run from their machines too.
Google is your friend. Fact is, their displayed "front end"
WildWestDomains.com looks like nothing much more than a domain name
MLM/profiteering scheme to me, but I could be wrong.

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> Interesting also, is the fact that they offer no SSL (Apache is
> listening on 443 but horribly misconfigured). This means that you're
> really hiding nothing from anyone, even thought they use the standard
> "anonymous" false claim we see so many other snake oil sites use.

I agree 100% that those proxies are as anonymous as a dog in a cats
convention, they could also be used indeed to gather passwords etc, if
you are stupid enough to check your email on them.

I personally only use them to read the news at work, not for anonymity
but to get around internet filters.

>
> Speaking of secureserver.net,  ;-) this isn't the only spam that's come
> out of that domain, nor is spam the only crap they allow. There's been
> numerous reports of phishing scams being run from their machines too.
> Google is your friend. Fact is, their displayed "front end"
> WildWestDomains.com looks like nothing much more than a domain name
> MLM/profiteering scheme to me, but I could be wrong.
>

I can talk about WildWestDomains as my domain is registered with them, I
recently filled out a complaint with the Eurid against them because they
tried to charge me money for updating the contact details of my domain name.

WildWestDomains is one of the cheapest around, they don't sell directly
only through reseller, I went with them because it was cheapest but then
they will try and extort you money from anywhere else they can, the
service is OK though, it works and they always reply to support enquiries.

I also have an email POP account with them and it is a secureserver.net
email, so if anyone is spamming with that just means that they are
abusing it, WildWestDomains does not help any spammers and they will
terminate your account quickly. Anyone with a domain with WildWest will
get a secureserver.net address for POP/SMTP my guess is that the
spammers buy it for a $10 investment and then let it get shut down.

Then, because of he complaint I made against them I have been informed
by the Eurid that WildWestDomains is a subsidiary of Go Daddy domains
which is the biggest domain registrar in the World. I do not think they
are scammers but I can recommend their domains only if you are careful
enough not to let them extort any more money from anywhere else from you
they will look at all possibilities to increase their revenue including
legal loopholes, but they will not scam you illegally.


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macarro <email@is.invalid> wrote:

> 
>
> I agree 100% that those proxies are as anonymous as a dog in a cats
> convention, they could also be used indeed to gather passwords etc, if
> you are stupid enough to check your email on them.
>
> I personally only use them to read the news at work, not for anonymity
> but to get around internet filters.

That's fine as far as it goes, but there's two problems.

1. These proxies aren't being markeded as a "way to read the news
through internet filters", they're being markeded as anonymity and
security tools. They're neither. In fact if anything they're
anti-security tools.

2. You assume your news reading patterns have no value to an attacker.
The information itself could be used to launch a focused attack, and
collecting that sort of data in general is big business and therefore
more likely to be subject to abusive collection methods ("bugs",
spyware, and other stupid web tricks inserted by the proxy itself).

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