How can I change my IP address?

Changing the IP address - a comprehensible endeavor

• The Internet is not just a source of friendly exchange and a playground for well-meaning avatars who always treat each other with respect. Often information that you leave on the WWW, such as your IP address, can be used to find out details about you that will be detrimental to you at a later point in time could. Computer savvy stalkers would be just one of several potential sources of problems.
• If you want to feel consistently safe on your forays and you already have an unpleasant feeling when you search for more or less embarrassing terms in a search engine and you fear that this could be assigned to your IP address in any conceivable way, there are ways and means of how to change the IP if necessary can.

How to change the IP address with Tor

The Tor project has been promoting anonymity and data protection on the Internet for years. It is not too difficult to get the tools you need to do the following: a. gain control of your own IP address.

1. First download a preconfigured gate-Package for your respective operating system which you can select by clicking on the respective column.
2. The "Vidalia Bundle" is ideal because it offers a convenient user interface that will make it easy for you to change your own IP address. Users of Linux distributions must and should use this for the other systems as well available, Tor browser bundles, since a Vidalia bundle solution is not easily available here functions. The practical browser package already has a modified Firefox portable browser integrated and does not need to be installed.


Setting up Vidalia - you should pay attention to this

In order to use Vidalia, you definitely need Tor, because the program ...

3. If you install the Vidalia software package, you decide during the process whether you also want to install the Tor button for Firefox - if you use this browser.
4. Please note that Silverlight, Flash or Java applications embedded in Firefox and other browsers can serve as gateways so that your IP can ultimately be recognized. If you do not want to take any risks, you should deactivate the extensions in the browser settings if necessary.
5. You should now make a few changes to the proxy settings in your preferred browser. These can be found in the respective internet options. Now enter "localhost" and "8118" (without quotation marks) in the appropriate fields and apply the changes to activate the proxy.
6. Once the bundle has been installed and Tor and Vidalia started, you can force a new identity, i.e. a new IP address, via Vidalia's panel and its silhouette icon. The initially problematic question of how to change your IP is now a thing of the past.

Please note that the use of proxies and also Tor is basically legal, but illegal activities on the Internet of course remain illegal and also traceable. The use of so-called torrent networks also prevents complete anonymity and remains insecure.