https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/ en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:13:40 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120927 @ #3 - You appear very stressed. Trust me, if 'Law Enforcement' needs to look at your "business" on your computer, I can find it quite easily, regardless of this program. This is designed for prying eyes in the private sector. ]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:13:40 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120927 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120925 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:25:56 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120925 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120924 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:39:53 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120924 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120923 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:11:15 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120923 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120922 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:48:26 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120922 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120921 "... Nothing wrong with the knowledge that we are all accountable to someone else in what we do either online or offline!" NOT disagreeing, but the other side of the coin is those people who have gone to jail etc, & were then later found innocent because hackers used malware to store illegal stuff on their system. IN a perfect world law enforcement & the justice & legal systems are perfect too -- alas we don't live in a perfect world, & none of those three are perfect either. In much less extreme cases, it doesn't take that much to impersonate someone & get them in trouble. * * * #11: "... 98% of home computers use dynamic IP adresses. Applications cannot hide or disguise your IP unless you have a Static IP address..." An easy way to verify your IP, see if it changes or has changed etc is [whatismyipaddress.com]. BTW, to change IP with an always-on connection Google/Bing with your ISP info to be 100% sure, but usually you can unplug the modem outbound connection overnight, & when you plug in, in the AM you'll have a new one [be aware of course this will also disconnect your phone line if you have/use voip]. FWIW, Proxies like the TOR network don't have any way of telling how you connected in the 1st place, since they only *see* your ISP's connection to the Net, so they could care less how your PC/laptop hooked up. * * * #19: "... I down loaded, got the serial and regesteration #’s, started the program, but the # ‘s were never asked for, therefore the TRIAL software get loaded..." From the GOTD readme.txt: "... run the application and register the software throug "Help" --> "Register" using the registration name and activation key provided."]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:48:44 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120921 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120920 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:30:10 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120920 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120919 "If it doesn’t conceal the IP, it’s not really protecting my privacy at the most basic internet level." There are a few comments of this sort, so in case it helps... When you connect to the web you're assigned an IP address -- this is used to send you whatever you requested, e.g. the web page for the URL in your browser's address bar. If you didn't have that IP address it's just a one way connection. Your IP address also works like Caller ID, since it's unique to the modem/Internet connection when it's connected -- always on connections normally have a static IP, whereas dial-up connections have a new IP every time they connect. To hide your true IP address it's necessary to go through 1 or more other connections to the net, because the last IP is the one that's visible, but your connection *might* still be recorded in their logs. Alternatively you can connect anonymously to some other network [often unsecured wireless access or by hacking], & use that network's IP, where any logs can't point to you because they never knew your identity in the 1st place. Going through one or more connections is called using a proxy, & it slows things down -- there are pay for access proxy servers offering [alleged] better performance because of less crowding, sometimes bundled with privacy software. There are also loads of free proxies -- they're pretty simple to set up -- and there's the TOR network, which is a worldwide chain of free proxy servers focused on secure privacy... the easiest way to use it is with the free TOR browser pack, which is also portable. Be aware that doing things like downloading a large file, using some plug-ins etc can still compromise your privacy while using something like TOR. And using a proxy doesn't do anything about your connection, or anything traveling over it... unless your initial connection is secured, it can be monitored [spied on], which is why or where you'll hear about secure VPNs, which in a nutshell protect everything from your connection to the 1st server you connect to [think of signing into your account at Amazon & then using Amazon's servers as proxies, though of course you can't do that]. That all said, consider *what-if* your IP address *is* known? That's not always a big deal, though it can be enough for someone to do a bit of mischief if they really wanted to. Decide if your relative anonymity is worth the price in time, effort, sometimes cash, & most always performance, & proceed accordingly.]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:23:48 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120919 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120918 [it wouldn't in 7's XP Mode VM] it doesn't look too bad. It's greatest weakness may be the strategy behind most all *cleaning* apps -- cleaning up afterward vs. never leaving anything behind that needs cleaned up. Otherwise it takes a somewhat different approach than the popular ccleaner... rather than scan everything & pick/choose what you want to get rid of, Anti Tracks has you select what you want to erase 1st, & after that it's simply a matter of having it get rid of what you pre-selected. There's advantages to either approach, with ccleaner perhaps being more flexible, but also more time consuming if/when you already know what you want to make go away on a regular basis. Anti Tracks also has Obsolete Files, Duplicate Files, & Broken Shortcut Cleaners -- the Obsolete Files Cleaner looks for temporary files/logs, while the other 2 are self explanatory... all give you options to select listed files for deletion, erase or send to the Recycle Bin, plus an option to zip deleted files 1st [since it didn't work properly in the VM I have no idea where the zip files are stored, & I didn't see any mention of this in the included help file]. There's a Disk Wiper to over-write the free space on your drive, but I didn't see anything about including the extra space in individual disk clusters [your hdd's divided into many small clusters, & as files fill up however many they need, the last cluster used is partially empty -- if you're paranoid enough you'll worry about any old data from deleted files that may be readable in that cluster free space]. Under File Security, Anti Tracks can lock/unlock files/folders, encrypting (not hiding) them, appending an .ate extension to each file -- you use the app's Unlock window to decrypt them. Hiding & Unhiding files/folders means using the built-in steganography to bury them in an image or audio file. The Windows Startup Mgr seems to delete registry entries in the Run keys, not relocate them as Autoruns [SysInternals] does. And there's a separate Browser section for erasing your choice of records/caches in the 4 main browsers, optionally on closing. Bearing in mind it didn't work properly in the VM, so there may be things missed... Anti Tacks takes up just short of 5MB with 134 files, 5 folders in the program's folder. No changes were made to Windows other than the Start Menu & the Registry -- installation adds an uninstall key, a couple of GiantMatrix keys, + 1 key under HKCR\CLSID... all-in-all not too bad, though some will probably add in comparison that as a portable app, ccleaner doesn't add any. There are loads of alternative apps & approaches or strategies depending on how much time/effort you want to invest & how paranoid you are [please note that I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing to be paranoid -- sometimes I'm sure it's justified]. Personally I favor not leaving tracks when practical, but to be safest that means using a VM [Virtual Machine], & erasing rather than simply overwriting the virtual disk file that holds it. Likewise you can use a portable version of whatever app including browsers, but files are very often written to your hard drive & then deleted, not erased. Some people use an OS on external media that can be encrypted, or just encrypt the hard drive on their PC/laptop -- leaving tracks is irrelevant if no one can read them, but having encrypted disks/files etc. may be incriminating in & of itself. Dell KACE has a free, secure, virtualized browser using Firefox. Wondershare had their Time Freeze app on GOTD recently -- that *could possibly* [AFAIK no one's thoroughly checked it] be a secure way to go if you made a copy of the cache file it uses when you 1st install the app, then erased the old one after using it, making a copy of the copy for it to use next time. If you want to see what tracks you're leaving now, Nirsoft has a few free apps that can be pretty revealing [Warning -- your AV software might not like them at all]. You can also find info online [Google/Bing] re: the registry's UserAssist keys, which are often overlooked & might provide too much info.]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:19:55 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120918 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120917 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:58:18 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anti-tracks-7/#comment-120917